 Adrienne Stevenson is a retired forensic scientist living in Ottawa, who writes poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction. Her poems have been published in the Ottawa Poets' Pathway “Lampman Challenge” chapbook, Time and Again Poetry Anthology, Quills magazine, on Geist.com and on PoetsAgainstTheWar.org. Her stories and articles have been published in Byline and Anglo-Celtic Roots. Deliberate GraceMy chamber fills drop by drop pressure builds magma expands like a giant boil finally bursts through the crust rains fire down Elsewhere, I sit on high peaks apparently mute shining in spots dirt-laden elsewhere in wrinkled valleys far below, where I meet another surface slickness of meltwater slowly grinds – I move I am a planet I breathe almost imperceptibly in melting moments DetritusI am flotsam, or possibly jetsam wreckage of the storm, deposited on your shore by wave and wind, surge and breakwater, plastic bottles and bags mix with kelp fronds and broken shells of unnamed sea-life refuse from distant lands combines with river effluent in chaotic currents oil slicks eddy around dense flotillas of muck that mar once pristine seas will people last long enough to mine these endless dumps; rake in and refine the components we so carelessly scatter? will our refuse finally choke the planet suffocate the surface and clog the deeps? while humanity lasts, who knows what questions our descendants will ask when we ourselves pile up on some distant beach rubbish and debris Ephemerasurfaces glisten in starlight
sparky ice crusts car windows stalactites of frozen snowmelt drip away wisps of fog caress budding branches mayflies’ fragile wings emerge pastels stripe early dawn hills dress up in an infinity of greens moisture hastens change humidity stifles breath overheated air ripples visibly lush, rampant, darkening greens abound berries explode with fragrant juice corn stubble rows mark harvest’s end sky darkens with emigrating geese shivering trees shed leaves arthritic joints renew complaints incremental changes remind us of impermanence
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