Why My Body by Antonia Clark
“Why My Body” by Antonia Clark Because I’ve made it a temple and worshipped at its altar. Because I’ve stuffed it with secrets and let it make me sorry. Because it can’t follow directions, a slave to delay and meander. Because I’ve tried to conceal it, desiring the bodies of others. Because I’ve scraped and scarred it, teaching it needless lessons. Because it’s the seed of...
Everything Shining and Invisible
Quiero estar dentro de tu más oscuro todo. I want to be inside your darkest everything. – Frida Kahlo “Generativity” by Marsha Rosenzweig Pincus, section image for Waves: A Confluence of Women’s Voices Read More _________________________________________________________ My Bones Are In You [each title is a link to the individual work] No Love Letters by Helen Casey Legacy by...
Illusion by Christina Dudley
“Illusion” by Christina Dudley In response to The Q Creative Form: Where I am From ____________________ Share your response to this work, in any form, here
Inner Beauty of the Common Dandelion by Gretchen Schneider
“Inner Beauty of the Common Dandelion” by Gretchen Schneider In response to The Q: What is a Room of Your Own? ____________________ Share your response to this work, in any form, here Gretchen Schneider Artist Statement: A descendant of miners who participated in the California Gold Rush, I inherited the feeling that life is a pioneering effort requiring courage, relentless pursuit,...
Beehive by Erin Rizzato-Devlin
“Beehive” by Erin Rizzato-Devlin The day is a small creature gilded with a thin leaf of blind adulation, to be unwrapped and undressed, as to lay a hand on its back to find the spine of gold that covers its false immunity, the meridian beam of an illusion. It brushes the morning with a light breath of aromatic insistence, promising with a pale blue eye a new beginning before it turns the corner to the...