In recognition of Poetry Month, and to celebrate and highlight our treasure trove of Orcas Island poets, Orcas Issues is pleased and honored to again offer daily poetry during April.
The Photographer
— by Susan Slapin —
Believe me
don’t believe me
when I tell you that you ride on Pegasus
wings of horses traversing worlds.
that your Spirit is tended
by white goats and angels
soft and light
as your unknowing hair.
That Titian’s fingers run through those curls
golden brown sun drenched
lips and hips relax
into the center of your belly.
You are the one smooth stone
woman man
the griffin wise one
made human headed, mostly
standing on all twos
animal breath speaks passions
from your happy howling jowls.
Your pores flash lightening
hide like suede
bright your soul
here now
Click.
ISLAND WINTER RAIN
— by Susan Slapin —
Exhaling wind blows round sound
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Awakening
translucent rain pours
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in clanking sheets
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metal zen marks
quicksilver
walls of changing air
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flashbrush sumis
skate spin flip a tango
tapping along the scented evergreens
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cuneiform lines and arrows
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pictographic alphabets
repose upon the windowsills of sleep
tucking in
the evening moon
The Sun & G-d & Child
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Pause on Main
–by Susan Slapin–
She writes poems on the top curve of her mouth
no one sees them.
paints her palate with in season plums
wraps her headscarf loosely ’round indigo rooms
likes sleepy roof towns!
past southwest borders…
slow dogs walking
’til dawn light appears
on Main Street imagine,
crackling ole phone wires
poking clip clop horse hooves
chewin’ tobacci around the cusps
slow music 2 cowboys dream realms on Main.
The Photographer – so beautiful and evocative of that moment you snap the shot, and what you see inside and outside a person in that moment.
i love the concrete poetry of Island Winter Rain~ what fun you make it as a visual piece, as well as sounds and how you put your words together in such a surprising and delightful way – as in Pause on Main, and all your poetry.
What beautiful images, colors, textures you paint with words. I enjoyed these on this beautiful day. Everything seems more vivid after your poetry. Lovely.