human/nature poems

Tracie Morris

Weaving intimate portraits of home with what could be the travel journals of a 21st-century troubadour, Tracie Morris's human/nature poems is a hymn to the human and more-than-human world. These poems bear the record of a state of heightened perception, springing from the displacements of travel and returning, of memory and its triggers, of global pandemics, ecological catastrophe, political unrest, and mourning. With great precision and abundant insight, Morris articulates the seam of our human/nature: "Sol has hands in Cairo, in Luxor / today He Rises. I wonder where / the outstretch lands. It matters knot / what circles your head. What your / kin says is power. Aspects of ever / lasting light, life is always made from parting."