The Receipt of Fern Seed
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Ramón E. Martínez
Ramón E. Martínez grew up in New Mexico and Arizona. Poems from his full-length collection, The Receipt of Fern Seed have appeared in: A Poetry Mag, American Poetry Review, Balcones, Bilingual Review, Black Warrior Review, Cape Rock, Century, Contact II, Croton Review, Gila Review, Glens Falls Review, Graham House Review, The Greenfield Review, Inlet, Inscape, Panoply, Rio Grande Writer's Newsletter, Riversedge, Víaztlan, and the Virginia Quarterly Review. He is currently seeking a publisher for The Receipt of Fern Seed.By Ramón E. Martínez
Published on 10/1/1999
We have the receipt of fern seed, we walk invisible.
--Shakespeare, Henry IV, Pt. 1, II, i
Carrying flames from the heart,
the seed grows green in our palms
only on St. John's Eve.
Summer is pliant,
and fades in the twilight
choir loft that serves many birds
and is a listening post
for prayers.
We are gifted
with many lights. We see
and are not seen; we
answer pain's dim questions.
Copyright © Ramón E. Martínez, 1999, 2009. All Rights Reserved.
We have the receipt of fern seed, we walk invisible.
--Shakespeare, Henry IV, Pt. 1, II, i
--Shakespeare, Henry IV, Pt. 1, II, i
We have the receipt of fern seed, we walk invisible.
--Shakespeare, Henry IV, Pt. 1, II, i
Carrying flames from the heart,
the seed grows green in our palms
only on St. John's Eve.
Summer is pliant,
and fades in the twilight
choir loft that serves many birds
and is a listening post
for prayers.
We are gifted
with many lights. We see
and are not seen; we
answer pain's dim questions.
Copyright © Ramón E. Martínez, 1999, 2009. All Rights Reserved.