Dave BontaMar 17, 2024
new #ecopoem for #StPatricksDay “Greens” https://www.vianegativa.us/2024/03/greens-2/
Dave BontaMar 13, 2024
new #ecopoem “After Life” https://www.vianegativa.us/2024/03/after-life/
After Life

in a thin soil of its own making over slabs of ancient sea floor the vacant shell of a pine still stands below the ridge crest gapped open like an iron maiden with horns of wood where branch collar…

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Dave BontaFeb 22, 2024
I don’t read or write fiction but occasionally I make gestures in its direction, as in this new #ecopoem “Mill Town” https://www.vianegativa.us/2024/02/mill-town/
Mill Town

the morning’s only cloud rises from the paper mill beside the bypass with its thump-thump of tires going elsewhere at seventy miles per hour as death comes to a white-footed mouse struggling in a t…

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Dave BontaFeb 18, 2024
new #ecopoem “The Well” https://www.vianegativa.us/2024/02/the-well/
The Well

this ignorance of mine is deep as the cloudless sky in which a small woodpecker is tapping having somehow heard the faint stirring of a grub i follow a deer track to its source in a deer bed a snow…

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Dave BontaFeb 12, 2024
new #ecopoem in my rituals series: Hand-in-Sand Ritual https://www.vianegativa.us/2024/02/head-in-sand-ritual/
Head-in-Sand Ritual

uncanny heat for the tenth of February but the creek’s trickle still hits the right notes after dark

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Dave BontaFeb 4, 2024
new #ecopoem “Gone to the Pine” https://www.vianegativa.us/2024/02/gone-to-the-pine/
Gone to the Pine

in the stories i tell myself i am sour milk good for pancakes or a cat if i had one sitting somewhere warm fur shining white i am empty-handed and approximately dressed but look how much pine can b…

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Dave BontaJan 7, 2024
New #ecopoem https://www.vianegativa.us/2024/01/feast-of-the-epiphany/
Feast of the Epiphany

the snow has come you whisper and I need to get naked but what does that mean six-sided and feather-light or blank as a questionnaire for the illiterate it’s time to settle into a down comforter an…

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Dave BontaJan 6, 2024
New #ecopoem https://www.vianegativa.us/2024/01/epiphany-eve/
Epiphany Eve

in the January silence my camera’s shutter makes me jump the sun is bright on the boulders grains of old snow rain down from acrobatic birches and oaks stretched out like yogis filling in the sky o…

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Dave BontaAug 27, 2023
My #ecopoem of the week focuses on the intersection between human and natural histories at a national park near me https://www.vianegativa.us/2023/08/a-walk-in-the-park-2/
A Walk in the Park

dead tree green with poison ivy sugar maples self-grafting like circus freaks a black birch wearing a hollow locust tree like a coat these are among the unsettling attractions at the Allegheny Port…

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RobertFredeKenterMar 21, 2023
It would be lovely to build more interactivity/#community sharing on this decentralized multiverse... Ty to @NewScience101 for finding & featuring my #ecopoem "Sea Voyagers: Searching for Dry Land' as part of their #SpringArtShare. Here is a #vispo #collage "Exhibit A" from WatchYrHead a #Canadian poetry/art etc. site exploring climate change & activism:
https://www.watchyourhead.ca/watch-your-head/poetry-robert-frede-kenter
I have 4 pieces total in the project; check also index of the project in its entirety.There is also a book avail.
POETRY: ROBERT FREDE KENTER

THE BENDS   Polished cameo    a distilled   mirror steam skimmed   skin of water   in the oval cue   The ocean has no perceptible bottom The detritus of cargo ships strewn,  submerged  ...

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