The satoris / s-tories is a series of poems focused on the present moment. They are dedicated to two great poets, Lew Welch and Matsuo Bashō.
Heart-rain is a short collection of haibun-style poems. Little stories with a short poem at the end. They are set in particular places, and get at a kind of awareness of place, place as Place, and interconnectivity of people there, of lives, in Nature, which is of course clearly what we need to be aware of. There's a better word for that, interdependence or to take Gary Snyder's oft-used phrase inter-penetration. Permeability is another good one. It's also by way of making the short poems, which are not haiku, more accessible.
Heart-rain 2
¡Alto pinar!
A sound I recognise that
I do not know
So I stay a moment &
Listen
The sky rushes in
The whole sky rushes in
The green, azure,
White & clean light
Desert burned
The sound of a bird
High in the pines.
20-21st Feb. 2024
Heart rain
Rain on the road
Is the blossoming of the world.
The project is part of the subthemes Re-imagining identity through poetry, The Ecology of Language - Poetry and Environmental Action, Healing Narratives - Poetry, Mental Health and Collective Trauma, Cultural Resilience - Literature as a force for social justice.
Author
Rowan Kilduff
Rowan Kilduff is an artist and poet from Ireland based in Central Europe. Much of his poetry focuses on ecological peace and our place in the wider world. His book of poetry and sketches, Wind to Space was a finalist in the Literary Global Awards for Social Change, published by Read Furiously in New Jersey, and he has appeared in some form in a range of magazines and journals including Rewilding Earth, with artworks, articles, interviews and poems. He was also included in a small anthology of American poets published in Italy, honorarily or accidentally. In 2024 he had his first exhibition of paintings and drawings in the Open Jazdow Festival and in MoMA Warsaw, and street art in Basel, Switzerland and Ostrava, Czechia. He is currently working on new projects.
