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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Kennedy, Deborah, 1953- author.
Title: Nature speaks : art & poetry for the earth / Deborah Kennedy.
Description: Ashland : White Cloud Press, 2016.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016027135 | ISBN 9781940468075 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Nature--Poetry. | BISAC: NATURE / Ecology.
Classification: LCC PS3611.E5577 A6 2016 | DDC 811/.6--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016027135
Holocoenotic Circle of Environmental Complexity, Dr. W. D. Billings
Dedicated to my family, large and small.
With thanks to my Mother for telling me
she always wanted me to be a writer.
Contents
Living Inside the Circle: Every Part Wedded to the Whole
Careless Hands: Wreaking and Reaping
1 Teeming
Beautiful Poisons: Bearing the Burden
1 Secrets
3 Breasts
4 The Cure
5 Chalice
