Come Alive

“I want to sing a song into your bones
Until they hum in harmony with the roots of the mountains.
I want to breathe fire into your blood
Until it is molten potential like the iron in the forge.
I want to dance your feet into a frenzy
Of ecstatic revelation…”

Ikysha Jones 9/26/24 Ikysha Jones 9/26/24

Fiddle with Gray

"You try to play me like a fiddle when you don’t know how to play

Talking black and white observations when it’s really all gray…"

Barbara Eisenhart 4/12/24 Barbara Eisenhart 4/12/24

Three to Read: Barbara Eisenhart on the Synthesis of Poetry

“It uses concentrated language: less words, more meaning. All words are chosen carefully by the poet so that each word is important… For me, poetry adds definition and clarity to my place in the world, and I can’t imagine life without it.”