Eco-A Voices- Marti Keller
November 17, 2017
Marti Keller has been a part of the Eco-A community since the very first nature walk around the lake at Stone Mountain. She and her husband Richard Cohen were attracted to the idea–and still are enthusiastically committed to– opportunities to spend time in our precious Southern Piedmont wilderness areas, especially in the urban Atlanta environment. She is a Unitarian Universalist minister in the Thoreau transcendentalist tradition. She was selected as a poet/artist in residence for the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act. Her most recent poetry collection is “Thinking in Haiku”. The following are several haikus Marti created including one inspired by the Eco-A Henderson Park walk.
Haiku on the trail
Beech trees coming in
Pipe vines, native magnolias
A very rich woods
Georgia Native Plant
We scramble down banks
Yell out: trillium ahead
small acts of rescue.
Speed Hikers
Thirteen grim hikers
in no way forest bathing
Do not see the trees.
Urban Woods in Early Winter
The trees are dimming
as they should in December
a dogwood still gleams.
Split Birch
Inside burnt-out tree trunk
High up in its black bowels
a mushroom flowers.
Wiser
Twenty-five years here
Once fooled by acres of green
Kudzu invasions.
Savant Slope
Some natives burst through
the English ivy hillside
Ancient defiance.
