Up Close: Lorraine E. Leslie Documents the Poetry Posts on SFCC Campus

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I am nature and you can’t control me
my breathe, a vaporous gas
With this release, I have set myself free.

Pressure builds up inside, volcanically
ash spews, from my fiery crevasse
I am nature and you can’t control me.

My hair, golden and flowing around me
it runs, like molten lava down my ass
With this release, I have set myself free.

My hot blood oozes out into the sea
sizzling, it turns into solid mass
I am nature and you can’t control me.

Fissures erupt from my core, viscerally
my cone shatters like an inverted wineglass
With this release, I have set myself free.

Like the goddesses Pele and Kali*
I will destroy all who trespass
I am nature and you can’t control me
with this release, I have set myself free!

*Pele is the goddess of volcanoes.
*Kali is the Hindu goddess of change and destruction

Lorraine E. Leslie