LEAFING

By Christina Hennemann

Runner-Up Winner of the Cerasus Poetry Chapbook Competition.

Against the backdrop of the climate catastrophe we find ourselves in, the speaker of these poems goes on a journey of self-discovery in a time of multiple crises.

Peeling away layer by layer, the speaker reveals their self and creates room to grow and branch out, but always in close connection with nature and the environment, as no life can exist without an intact planet Earth.