Poem Brut #118 – Hedge School
What “it” is remains the poetic potential on the page. I’m inspired by motherhood and Ireland’s history with the monks of Ireland’s manuscript creation. As a teacher, I find it funny how the English language is just 26 letters of sound and how the electronic impulse in the brain translates an image to a sound via a letter. To see the potential of a new language on the page is poetics in motion.
In the 118th of the Poem Brut series, new poetry by Michelle Moloney King.
Our Desert Islands
And after all, what is earth if not a giant island floating in the sea of infinity? Are we not stuck on Buckminster Fuller’s ‘spaceship earth,’ in eternal orbit around Helios’s chariot? If we are formed by isolation, then we must ask ourselves what comes after isolation? As we emerge from the pandemic, we have to decide what kind of islands we will choose to live on in the future. The effects of the last year, this extended period of isolation, will have a profound effect on the world we will come to live in, but it is up to us what kind of world that will be.
An essay by Matt Bluemink on reimagining the future through desert islands.