POLLEN SONG
like a tree
breathing
seedlings
on the windowsill, June
rides the wind, loving
tender, slow & frictionless,
June carries drifts
gliding his gentle hand guiding
stamen to release, against aching
stamen June breathes seeding &
rhythmically growing & tastes of warm
nectary & powdering fecundity
& brushing evergreen to evergreen June
sighs
into your belly &
bends you twitch
like a valley, June sails
& pollen comes rushing,
comes forth, comes coasting, comes
vastly
as the sea.
earth justice zadok (it/he) is an agender Afro-Anishinaabe and Lakota poet and citizen of the Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians (Waganakising Odawak). He is a 2025 Indigenous Nations Poets fellow and his work has previously appeared anonymously in various independent zines circulating along Nkwejong / the Greater Lansing area (Grand River and Red Cedar River’s convergence point). earth justice zadok once had a dream of heaven as fast clean air and endless mountain valley. it loves open pinelands and the wild blueberries that grow there.