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What a tidal salt marsh can teach about interdependence, resilience and healing

The marshes have their own unique way of commiserating with the human condition. Along half a mile of floating boardwalk through a marsh in Saw Mill Creek, a tributary of the Hackensack river, I encounter parallels to my own life. The Kingsland marsh discovery trail on an impoundment in the Richard DeKorte Park, southern part…

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An early Valentine's day (I am counting the days to Spring, a month more to go)
The inspiration for this poem lay in a snippet of poetry that the wonderful actor, the late Irrfan Khan voices to a pomegranate plant in the movie Karwaan (Hindi). He say this, to the sapling of Anarkali (pomegranate bud):
Dendrites to dendrites
Our last Sunday brunch was Georgian. There is something about the Adjarian Kachapuri (adjaruli) that reminded me of the Sun. So I borrowed this evocative poem from one of the few women poets that appears in a Soviet era 'Anthology of Gerogian Poetry', that I am leafing through this month, February being designated for an exploration of all things Georgian. Most of the poets mentioned, lived in a different era and themes like patriotism, love for family, the ideal woman and land, resonate throughout the collection, but it was the poetry of the very few women poets featured that stood out for the emotional tenor of their work. There is a mistake in the translation though (lire - lit should read fire -lit, I believe) and my own typo, thank you autocorrect, ( translated by Venera Urushadze). Available online.
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