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erulean beyond reflection your eyes have consumed from the sky like a beast coaxing the blessings of the wind.</p><p id="25c2"><i>I was placed here for you.</i></p><p id="ebaa">A voice lichened in cypress knees carries with the caress of her woods pressing me forward into the dew and new ground enriched with instinct into the roots of palmettos shielding the glade of tomorrow still ripe with blackberries where she whispers with thistles.</p><p id="e2de"><i>Dionne Charlet was born in New Orleans. Find her poetry in Ladowich Magazine, Noteworthy, Loose Words, thewrytr, A Cornered Gurl, Blue Insights, Illumination, the POM, and the Lark on Medium. Versions of “Some Other Nature” have been printed in the anthologies <a href="https://www.amazon.com/New-Orleans-Gaslight-Gary-Bourgeois-ebook/dp/B00IRI08ZY/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&amp;keywords=new+orleans+by+gaslight&amp;qid=1

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593549372&s=books&sr=1-2">New Orleans by Gaslight</a> [Black, 2013] under pseudonym Dionne Cherie, and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Louisiana-Inklings-Charles-Allen-Gramlich/dp/149214794X">Louisiana Inklings: A Literary Sampler</a> [Gramlich, 2013].</i></p><div id="bb90" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/an-index-to-my-poetry-285ee069b7ad"> <div> <div> <h2>Here’s a Helpful Index to My Poetry by Subject — Create Your Own</h2> <div><h3>Thank you for reading!</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*Bj2i3rOH0e4SIpV3iZl5SQ.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

The ancestry of nature invoked through the imagery of free verse

Some Other Nature

a voice lichened in cypress knees carries with the caress of her woods

Swamp hidden in a neighborhood near Bogalusa, LA. Photo by Dionne Charlet 2020.

Encounter shellac where the live oak could balk in sways of stomata to spare shadow from earth, swaying like Eve in Persephone’s wake should a frenzy of madrigals cluster to feast where her prodigal snake once faced sentience.

A tree grows in reaches long since she passed fragrant lacking tulips within a thicket of moss.

Now my soul skirts the path of Icarus to bathe in the cerulean beyond reflection your eyes have consumed from the sky like a beast coaxing the blessings of the wind.

I was placed here for you.

A voice lichened in cypress knees carries with the caress of her woods pressing me forward into the dew and new ground enriched with instinct into the roots of palmettos shielding the glade of tomorrow still ripe with blackberries where she whispers with thistles.

Dionne Charlet was born in New Orleans. Find her poetry in Ladowich Magazine, Noteworthy, Loose Words, thewrytr, A Cornered Gurl, Blue Insights, Illumination, the POM, and the Lark on Medium. Versions of “Some Other Nature” have been printed in the anthologies New Orleans by Gaslight [Black, 2013] under pseudonym Dionne Cherie, and Louisiana Inklings: A Literary Sampler [Gramlich, 2013].

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