Thursday, June 3, 2021

Sarah-Jean Krahn : The Seventh

folio : energy stories

 

 

iyinîsiwin of twister,
                                                  
         true
                                                   
ancestor
 

     funnels blood as thick as
                                        
    pine gum
                              
        underground
 

         to effervesce
                              
       the prism
         
                         still unborne.
 

 

             As the scarce declare
         
         emergency                                      

             you the youth
         
     emerge
          
—and howl!
 

              Skolstrejk
         
       f
ör klimatet!
         
        
collides
                    
  with clouds
                    
         to hurl
                    

                                       infer-
                                        
    no

                                        
     
! 

          Can your 2.7 million                    storm
         
The sidewalk-coughing       crude
         
Hail cacophony of honks to          
flood
         
Exhausted
booms’ desertion           ?

 

 

 

Sarah-Jean Krahn is an experimental feminist poet and the author of A Girl Who Was His House (Gothic Funk Press, 2021). She lives gratefully on Treaty 6 territory. Find her work at www.sarahjeancreates.com.