the water tells me
Even the most repressed woman has a secret life, with secret thoughts and secret feelings which are lush and wild, that is, natural. Even the most captured woman guards the place of the wildish self, for she knows intuitively that someday there will be a loophole, an aperture, a chance, and she will hightail it to escape. Clarissa Pinkola Estés . . . What we cannot imagine cannot come into being. ...
Words of the Water by Shelly Smithson
“Words of the Water” by Shelly Smithson A fleet of waves skims along the bay making for shore in unison goldlit by the fingers of nectarine fanning out across a fearless sky at dusk the rush of sound silences even the seagulls crests of white foam churn under as the shoreline draws near Perhaps this is perfection this breathless coda to the day wrapped in the crepe of sunset I cannot breathe into this beauty...
Dama Gladiola by Lyndia Radice
“Dama Gladiola” by Lyndia Radice ____________________ Share your response to this work, in any form, here Lyndia Radice Artist Statement: Throughout my life, I have drawn, painted, and taken photographs. Music and art are essential parts of my spiritual practice: I strive to see that which matters. I use a mirror reflection technique to photograph plants, rocks, trees, and creatures. These...
Overcomers – Now and in the Future by Tania Martin
“Overcomers – Now and in the Future” by Tania Martin We mined our histories with feathers. We remembered the lies that blew out the light. We owned our partial blindness. We owned our imprisoned hopes. One of us kicked in her own blood, another wandered in the valley of the shadows, another carried water for others while dying of thirst. Some of us witnessed demons; others, the blood-letting of fake love. All...
Heart Pebbles by Kathleen Schlarb
“Heart Pebbles” by Kathleen Schlarb ____________________ Share your response to this work, in any form, here Kathleen Schlarb Artist Statement: Kathleen Mannix Schlarb is an artist, poet, writer born September 16th,1948, third child of Edgar P. Mannix, Jr. MD and Elizabeth A. Lindquist Mannix. She was raised in Manhasset, NY. She majored in Art at University of Dayton, Ohio, graduated in 1971...
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