In mid-April at the Split This Rock Poetry Festival, one of the sessions I attended and valued had the title " "Eco-Feminist Poetry, Intersectionality, & the End of the Earth." In the midst of my concern about ecology and women is my addiction to mathematics -- and a poem by Cecilia Llompart started me counting. See if you, too, count the word "buffalo" eight times during this poem; and shudder when you read the final word.
Eight Buffalo by Cecilia Llompart
An obstinacy of buffalo
is not to say that the buffalo
are stubborn. No, not like
a grass stain. More that
the very bulk of one—
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Friday, May 6, 2016
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