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Speak through Seed, a poem by Brenna Sobecki













Speak through Seed 


—after Hadara Bar-Nadav’s “Death by Design”


Within our world I am 

a secret to some 

a secret to none. 


I dream to run 

by the pinked water 

through choices, past pasts 


I lost the light 

candle, path, pain 

still cries to me. 


“Indiana” of Lenker & Meek 

grand reminders hanged 

high treason for change—


Chug along, 

push along, 


play-along crescendo 

to reincarnation—


By wing my kin 

goes seed to soil to sky to rafter 


By brushstroke my omen 

goes to speak to pry to seek to look after. 





- Brenna Sobecki



Brenna Sobecki is currently an undergraduate at Indiana State University. Brenna is a Northwest Indiana native who has lived all over the Hoosier state. When not writing, Brenna can usually be found hiking in the Indiana Dunes or spending quality time with their cat, Twig. Their poem “Gerascophobia” has been published in Tipton Poetry Journal.