Synkroniciti is pleased to welcome back Pennsylvanian poet Kate Potter, who closes our “Identity” issue with her poem “Gravity.” Kate acknowledges that our identity, at least as we know it, is temporary. We are all subject to gravity and to mortality: “objects falling accelerate/ at a uniform rate/ regardless of weight/ said Galileo,” but that what we leave behind becomes the soil–literally and metaphorically–upon which future generations grow and build. We are part of a much longer story, one that remains full of hope and needing nurture. “Gravity” is vulnerable, human, humorous, and graceful in the span of twenty-five short lines, the economy and simplicity of the poem belying its weight and import.
Read “Gravity” in Synkroniciti’s “Identity” issue, available for purchase here: https://synkroniciti.com/the-magazine/purchase-individual-issues/
Kate Potter, a hemiplegic septuagenarian poet, is a proud nasty woman and cat lady getting by in a Pennsylvania nursing home. Potter has been reading, studying, writing and reciting poems for over forty years. She conducts a biweekly poetry circle for fellow inmates in her nursing home. Professionally, Potter flew to Western Europe and the Middle East as a flight attendant and French translator for TWA until a corporate takeover ended her career of nearly thirty years. For most of her adult life Potter has been an activist, promoting all of the arts and advocating for a healthy environment.