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Editor, novelist & poet, Kay Syrad’s third solo collection is What is near (Cinnamon, 2021). She co-runs eco-poetry courses as half of the composite eco-poet kin’d & kin’d. She lives in rural East Sussex.
caught by the sun the fly zigzags darts
disappears another or the same fly appears
darts disappears the beech branches grow out
horizontally seeking light the leaves bright green
and shadowing some yellow the oak
hooshes in its high canopy the wind
the sound the green the yellow
in here
shame happens and a proxy shame happens
the feeling filters down through organs
tissue as if woven on a loom as if the body
is a loom and shame the warp the weft
out here
is where I am in the all-ish vastness of wrong acts
a half-thought a said/unsaid the buzzing
isn’ continuous but pulses at intervals re-charging
in the (de) forest in the parched soil
Poem from collection What is near, Cinnamon Press, 2021
Publications:
What is near, 2021, Cinnamon Press
Wild Correspondings: an eco-poetry source book, 2021, Elephant Press
Inland, 2021, Cinnamon Press
Exchange, 2015, Little Toller
Send (novel), 2015, Cinnamon Press
Kay Syrad website
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