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Sign: Berkeley - Berkeley Poetry Walk - "Fennel" a song by Opal Palmer Adisa

Address:
2000 Addison St, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA
Category:
Walking path
City:
Berkeley, CA For all manhole covers in Berkeley, CA
Country:
USA For all manhole covers in USA
Shape:
Square
Material:
Metal
Placement:
Ground
Tags:
Literature and poetry 
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FENNEL

give the hungry
some seeds and they’ll sleep full
for another day who wants to wake to misery

i’m sister to sorrow
cousin to parsley
sometimes telling the truth is too painful
i flatter
an ugly woman
you look good enough to eat
what is a false compliment
in comparison to a hurt feeling

mek dem slander me
fi sow fennel is fi sow sorrow
not true
me tall wid a head full of hair
but me beauty is de moles dem
all ova me body

the anguish you feel
cuts to the marrow
I am profound

-Opal Palmer Adisa
Photography:
2023
Ariel Rubinstein
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Comments:
Berklee’s poetry Walk was laid in October 2003 along Edison Street between Shattuck and Milvia Streets. The route includes 128 metal plates with excerpts from songs, each of which is related in one way or another to the city of Berkeley.

The current plaque features a poem written by the Jamaican-born American poet, Opal Palmer Adisa (1954), who earned her doctorate from the University of Berkeley, and even taught there.

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The closest sign from this series (3 Meter): Berkeley - Berkeley Poetry Walk - "The Impossible Poem" a song by George Oppen

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2000 Addison St, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA (3 Meter)
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Berkeley - Berkeley Poetry Walk - "Keep me" a song by Malka Heifetz Tussman
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Berkeley - Berkeley Poetry Walk - "The Panther" a song by Rainer Maria Rilke
2000 Addison St, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA (4 Meter)
Berkeley - Berkeley Poetry Walk - "Encounter" a song by Czeslaw Milosz
2001 Addison St Suite 317, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA (5 Meter)
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2000 Addison St, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA (5 Meter)

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