Something Evergreen Called Life Tree Spirits Grass Spirits was riddled with human follies

was riddled with human follies and trespasses we've come to identify as the Anthropocene

Translation Katrine Øgaard Jensen

many of the lines spawn additional

they decide what they must save on this Ark are words

Something Evergreen Called Life Tree Spirits Grass Spirits was riddled with human folliesRania Mamoun (trans. Yasmine Seale) After years of writing and organizing against the regime of Omar al Bashir, Sudanese writer, journalist, and activist Rania Mamoun was finally forced to leave her country with her young daughters, taking refuge in a US city in the early throes of a pandemic. Confined to her new home, Mamoun embarked on a daily practice of writing out of which emerged these poems of loss, despair, and hope. Brought into English by