The Rights of Spring
Today is the publication day for The Decipherment of Nature, by Philip Kane!
To celebrate, here’s a poem (apt for those in the Northern Hemisphere) from the collection.
Rights of Spring
Every citizen has the right
to bear flowers. The growing light
is inalienable, and power
is inherent in the bud and blossom.
The very earth is a vigorous
declaration of intent. Life springs up
everywhere, in leaf and flesh and stone.
Don't tread on the grass.
Don't tread on the grass.
Our constitution is written
in the language of the mycorrhizal,
flourished on the placards of snowdrops.
These rights of spring are held sacred,
insinuating themselves, threading
through meadow and woodland floor,
rooting deep into river and mountain.
They will not be lost.
They will not be taken.
These rights are contained within the violet,
proclaim equality of tree and herb,
natural justice for fauna and flower.
Every citizen has the right
to light, and leaf, and fertile ground.
We live together here, on this land,
in this republic of the reborn life.
Winter withers away.
All power to the flowering.
About The Decipherment of Nature, by Philip Kane
From multiple author and poet Philip Kane comes an astounding collection of poems that “turn the reader into … a badger digging for the roots of stars.” Playfully weaving together the ancient and the mundane, the poems in The Decipherment of Nature are an absolute delight for both the magically and poetically inclined.
"A collection of thoughtful poems that often use the distant past as a lens through which to examine the human condition, from a mammoth bone to a pair of notched Celtic swords to the black ships of ancient Mycenae. Philosophical meditations filled with vivid mythic images."
—Christoper Scott Thompson, author of Pagan Anarchism, If In Ruins We Must Live, and The Book of Onei
The Decipherment of Nature is available in multiple print and digital editions:
Perfectbound with matte cover: 15.00 US
Hardcover (Grey Digital Cloth with slipcover): 27.50 US