A Poem by Harriet Jae

STRAW ORB


The text on the right was adapted from http://www.endangeredearth.com. The statistics were taken from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species in autumn 2023. You can find a Word accessible version of this poem here.

Harriet Jae, a wanderer with a wheelchair, lives in Ghent, Belgium. Published in Poetry Wales, Poetry London, Modern Poetry in Translation, Mslexia, Under the Radar, Harana Poetry and elsewhere, she was longlisted for the 2020 and 2022 Mslexia Women’s Poetry Competition and shortlisted in 2022 for the Bridport Prize and the Live Canon Pamphlet Competition.