Nature, She Wrote, by KAD

Poetry, chapbook, 28 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

Nature, She Wrote is a lyrical, emotionally charged exploration of humanity’s fractured relationship with the natural world, featuring the award-winning poem, “Why, Oh Why?”. Through intimate encounters with birds, forests, ice, clouds, and seas, the poems give voice to a planet that feels wounded, overlooked, and exploited. Nature is not a backdrop here, she is a sentient presence who mourns, questions, retaliates, and remembers. Each piece reveals a different facet of environmental decline: disappearing seasons, traumatized wildlife, polluted landscapes, and the quiet vanishing of childhood wonders once shaped by the outdoors. The tone moves fluidly between nostalgia, lament, and accusation, creating a portrait of a world dimming under human carelessness.

Across all its pieces, the collection blends tenderness with severity, offering both a eulogy for what has been lost and a cautionary tale about what may come. It invites readers to reconsider their place in the natural order and to recognize the emotional and spiritual consequences of environmental neglect.

KAD is an award-winning poet, hybrid-writer, and self-published author from Oklahoma with appearances at The Hillsather Press, Dark Poets Club, and Dream Quest One. Her work blends gothic, speculative, mythical, and literary elements, often exploring psychological terror, grief, rebellion, and ecological collapse. @KADOriginal