Dialoguing the Critical Curvature Cervical: Mind can overcome matter of footbones, ankles, knees, hip lumbar limbered up cervical nattering snare drum kit of the static vertebral crackle jaw like lightning Thoracic: masseuse uses elbows deep sweeps trigger points disarming, from limping, mechanically rotating swing step on magically stretching risers of stairs to enlimpating the limbs […]
Author Archives: Pearl
moonstruck
can’t see for the clouds my mind can find the moon season, hour, face known One Deep Breath challenge.
Book knowledge of Heat (May)
We harlequin-dream to be plastered with cherry petals, lips holi-dusted in crocus pistils. We plead of sky and each other: make us sweat, bait us to unswaddle without the suffering of late frost. April showers thaw the shoulders, showing skin is months away, other side of spasms of lumbar, shoots of brave green, shiver of […]
Formative Pressures on Poetry
We are creatures of action and reaction. We have little choice but to react to our constraints even if we don’t know what they are consciously. It’s like responding to tone or body language. There’s an intuitive response. We learn to use what we have to work with. If conversationally we know we may be […]
mandate expansion
This journal is languishing with my only putting up the subset of poems that I wrote which are not dreck, which may be of interest to others and yet cannot be sent to market immediately. Therefore I’m going to pad. ahem, that is expand my mandate. The thought is I will include what poetry I’m […]