From PBS News Hour "In this digital and divided society, it can often seem that language is used primarily to deliver criticism and express rage. But poet Ada Limón shares her humble opinion on why she sees people turning to poetry for language that reflects nuance, mystery and even “radical hope.” https://youtu.be/6yL5kSIGCrQ
we do not need words we do not need a shared written language we have eyes that truly see lips that speak a common tongue a shared palate for the aroma the taste of the salt that glitters on each other’s skin when we flow like silk against each other and boundaries dissolve like sea … Continue reading The Shape of Water
It is rumored that there are 50 words In the Eskimo language for snow I ponder Why are there not 50 words in the English language That I could draw upon To describe that moment When your bare skin Touches my bare skin? Many call me a writer, a poet And yet words utterly … Continue reading Skin (revisited)
There is fullness an eloquence to the space between your words I am a woman who listens attentively to silence who understands intuitively that certain essential truth lies poignantly not in the busyness of what is articulated but in still quiet of words unsaid There is meaning to your pauses communication radiating in your … Continue reading In The Silence (Revisited)
It is rumored that there are 50 words In the Eskimo language for snow I ponder Why are there not 50 words in the English language That I could draw upon To describe that moment When your bare skin Touches my bare skin? Many call me a writer, a poet And yet words utterly … Continue reading Skin (revisited)
Brave & Reckless 