Plasticpoems
Fiona Tinwei Lam

 

This short animated video depicts two concrete/visual poems by poet Fiona Tinwei Lam from her collection of poems Odes & Laments about marine plastic pollution.

Plasticpoems
(Spiral poem text)

 

plastic-coated

plastic inside plastic

nestled in plastic wrapped

in plastic sealed in plastic re-sealed

in plastic taped with plastic tied with plastic

cushioned in plastic encased in plastic wrapped

in plastic carried in plastic before discarded in plastic

with plastic and plastic and more plastic and more plastic

polypropylene polycarbonate polyester polyurethane polyethylene

polystyrene polyamide melamine formaldehyde polyepoxide thermoplastic

PVC  PET HDPE PCDC LDPE ABS HIPS PMMA PEEK PEI  PTFE dumped plastic

leaching plastic swallowed plastic burning plastic airborne plastic choking plastic smothering plastic

strangling plastic maiming plastic mutilating plastic invasive plastic pervasive plastic ubiquitous plastic insidious

plastic relentless plastic persistent plastic resistant plastic omnipresent plastic perpetual plastic eternal plastic world in plastic

plastic plastic plastic plastic plastic plastic plastic plastic plastic plastic plastic plastic plastic plastic plastic plastic plastic plastic

Thank you, Fiona Tinwei Lam, for responding to the public call for poem seeds and sprouts! Every voice matters. Everything counts.

Sprouts that grew from this seed