Up to Earth: An Ecopoesy Chapbook

By Armando Rendón

Armando Rendn, a son of the Westside barrio of San Antonio, Texas, now lives in Kensington, California, a little hamlet in the Berkeley hills facing San Francisco Bay, with his wife and their two gardens, front and back. A non-avid gardener, he has nevetheless learned much from digging and observing the world of plants, flowers, bonsai and weeds.

Retiring in 2004 after serving as a writer/editor for business and government entities for about 45 years, he took up anew a long-time desire to write, and write. A book of fiction aimed at young men that is part fantasy, science fiction and autohistory, is due out in the spring 2013. In 2009, he launched the online Latino literary magazine, Somos en escrito, dedicated to promoting literary endeavors among Chicano and Latino writers and providing a handy resource of American-based literature by writers of Hispanic origin in all genre and about all things for teachers at all levels of education.

This chapbook is his offering to creation itself, all life as we find it around us in the most unlikely places and things. The writings urge us in a quiet way to take heed of our surroundings, dwell on them, and preserve them for others, our childrens children, to explore and love.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Palibrio
• Release date: Jan 31, 2013
• ISBN: 9781463349721

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Up to Earth

An Ecopoesy Chapbook

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Armando Rendón

Copyright © 2013 by Armando Rendón.

Front cover art by Edel Romay ([e-mail])

Library of Congress Control Number:   2013901462

ISBN:   Softcover   978-1-4633-4973-8

             Ebook       978-1-4633-4972-1

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Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Foreword

A blessing

A Garden Tale

A reflection of rain

A rose is first a bud

Autumn drama

Crescent moon

Day’s Trilogy

El clima se mejorará

The climate is bound to improve

Flowers in my garden

Fog Attack

Half-light

Having slipped on a mossy stone

How lavish nature is…

How much we miss of nature’s creativity

Indian Rock

It, too

Just wait for spring

La luna acercandose

As the moon draws nearer

Let the dahlias be

Looking out to the back garden

Planting

Scatter life

Signs of spring

Standing by a leptospermum

Summerscape

Taking to the path

Taproot

Templo

Temple

Temporada para todo

A season for everything

That green slip of a thing

Ugly chrysalis!

Upon meeting a garden

Water flows serene

Zarzamora

Blackberry

Wee tree

Wee Tree appeared previously in

riverbabble, an anthology of poetry and

prose.

Dedication

To lovers and protectors

of nature, who see

how human life

is

or can be

one

with all creation.

Acknowledgements