Incredible Edible Creatives
The job of a Poet Laureate is to celebrate people and place.
From June 2024 - May 2025, Scots/First Nations poet and co-author of Seeds to Solutions, Anne Sikking, will post work here on Incredible Edible themes. Anne is happy to give way over to others and highlight their work too.
Former Poet Laureate (2021/2022) for Los Angeles South Bay arts magazine TESS,
and Inaugural chair of Glasgow's City of Poets, you can see some of Anne's work here.
SLUGS
I feel sluggish in the summer sun.
But not the way you think.
I'm still up for having fun,
but near driven to the brink...
The brink of madness, fury road,
not due to some sunstroke,
No. Nature's on us bestowed
her idea of a joke.
One, eats its weight for heaven's sake
forty times a day!
Travels like a little snake,
leaving slime trails on its way.
I shout at slugs, (I know, absurd...),
“Little sucker!” – each one I find.
(Better, perhaps, than the other word
That comes rhymingly to mind.)