Decomposing Poems’ by Penny Boxall, with illustrations by Sally Dod. Penny was the 2023-2024 Writer in Residence at Wytham Woods, University of Oxford, working on a sequence of poems about soil, (im)permanence, and layers of history. During her residency she wrote poems designed to decompose in place in the Woods: some were printed on apples, others on biodegradable paper, and others were buried. The poems are collected here in a new pamphlet in the Woodland Words series.