Chant of the June Garden

 

Chant of the June Garden

Boneset
hummingbird
Bowman’s Root
bee

zinnia sprout
hollyhocks
Cardinal Flower
weeds

coral bells
baby dill
fennel fronds
tree

clematis
foxglove
primrose
me

(c) Mary Lee Hahn, 2025

We Do Not Care

 

Letter to an Awkward Sixteen Year-Old Dragging Main

 

A golden shovel using a line from Elizabeth Bishop’s “Letter to NY” 

Hello!

 

Fuel

Counter

 In typography, the small space inside letters is called a counter.

A Count. Account. Counter.

I’m
mapping
all the words
for what I’ll say
twenty years from now.
I consider their shapes,
their volume, their urgency,
even the nearly hidden space
in each letter, known as the counter.

(c)Mary Lee Hahn, draft 2025

Trauma

 

Wind Power

 

Bioenergy

 

Identity

 

Pollution

 

Historically

 

Definition

 

DEI

 

Equity

 

Barrier

 

Autism

 

Accessible

 

Victim: BRING ABREGO GARCIA HOME

 

Measles

 

Activism

 

Minority

 

Belong

 

Female

 

Promote

 

Identity

 

Elderly

 

Hate

 

Gay

 

Pronouns