Frances Cannon
$6
Sympoeticspublished in Ottawa by above/ground press
After Donna Haraway and the Faerie Queen
Trouble in the knots of fertility.
Human fictions, entangled and ongoing,
dying in the muddy compost.
Human beings in interspecies intimacies,
string figures connect seed bags of stories,
overgrown with archetypes and myths.
I will affirm the fluidity of bodily boundaries,
together with figures physical and nonphysical.
I want to take the mud, fertile slime, animals,
plants, fungi, and form new organisms.
The art of living as a multigender, androgynous symbiont;
seductive forms, a persistent unworking of power.
December 2025
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Frances Cannon is a writer, editor, educator, and artist based in Edinburgh, Scotland and Burlington, Vermont. She is the Reviews Editor for Poetry Wales, an editorial reader for The Kenyon Review, and an affiliated scholar at Kenyon College, where she recently completed the Mellon Science and Nature Writing Fellowship. She has an MFA in creative writing from Iowa and a BA from the University of Vermont. She is the author and illustrator of several books: Walter Benjamin Reimagined (MIT Press, 2019), The Highs and Lows of Shapeshift Ma and Big-Little Frank (Gold Wake Press, 2017), Tropicalia (Vagabond Press, 2016), Fling Diction (Green Writers Press, 2024), Willow and the Storm (Green Writers Press, 2025), and Queer Flora, Fauna, Funga (forthcoming with Valiz Press in 2026).
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