Three Poems by Giovanna Riccio
She BearFor Ursula Franklin (1921-2016)-Feet on terra-firma, eyes on demilitarized cloudsat twenty-eight, Ursula Franklin exitedGermany’s post-war, Nazi mindsetembarked for Canada to pursue justiceand unlock stony secrets remnant in history’smineral veins and threaded rockto merge geology as genealogymetallurgy as liturgy.-The University of Toronto’sfirst woman metallurgistshe nixed binary division, fusedfeminist and Quakermatter and metaphysicsolive branch and cornucopiadecoded patriarchy’s tell-tale languageand Janus-faced antics.-Her…