Little of the Vibration Will Return
by Kim Shuck
At 526 years the fetus is developing thalamic connections
Vulnerable
Neutrons fluoresce
Limbic system a web spinning into
Memory
Emotion
Transgender home for our research
Water flower shifts
Cream
Lavender
One day and the next
They embrace the diversity of experience of
Experiment
Branches snapped
With science-based fingertips
A focus
A y-shaped brain connection
This human body is evidence-based
Here in the furniture fort of our entitlement
Chemistry bathing in new attachments
We sing the forbidden words into the
Upholstery
Little of the vibration will return
Your self
An idea banned before the seed swells
Before the shell cracks
Vulnerable
Neutrons fluoresce
Limbic system a web spinning into
Memory
Emotion
Transgender home for our research
Water flower shifts
Cream
Lavender
One day and the next
They embrace the diversity of experience of
Experiment
Branches snapped
With science-based fingertips
A focus
A y-shaped brain connection
This human body is evidence-based
Here in the furniture fort of our entitlement
Chemistry bathing in new attachments
We sing the forbidden words into the
Upholstery
Little of the vibration will return
Your self
An idea banned before the seed swells
Before the shell cracks
© Kim Shuck. All rights reserved.
Kim Shuck's life has now lost all semblance of control. In June she was named the 7th poet laureate of San Francisco and she can now be found reading pretty much all the time, everywhere in the greater SF Bay Area. She is having a fantastic time and is grateful for the honor. Her most recent book is Clouds Running In.
www.kimshuck.com
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Yanash Kulli *
Yanash Kulli *
alone on the pathway
alone on the pathway
ancient spirits
beckon deeper
into the wooded land
grandfather trees
guide the way
bowing in majestic arcs
peace and silence here
deeper still
to the sacred stone circle
to the healing waters
hidden inside the forest
a private stillness here
but for a trickle over the stones
an extraordinary place
do you feel its secret?
up from within the heart of the earth
sparkling cool waters
bubble since time unknown
the spring gently bestows its gift
stones capture the bounty
hold it as tiny creatures
skim across the surface
water flees over the rocks
across the land
among the ancient trees
and whispering wind
into the rivers to the great sea
Grandmother watches
she sings her blessed song
Yanash Kulli
bubbles on
* Buffalo Springs
© Rebecca Hatcher Travis. All rights reserved.
Rebecca Hatcher Travis is a citizen of the Chickasaw
Nation who carries deep roots in both Indian Territory Oklahoma and
Texas. Her first poetry book, Picked Apart the Bones, won
the First Book Award from the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas and was
published by the Chickasaw Press.
Her second poetry book, Constant Fires, was released by White Dog Press, a division of Chickasaw Press, in October, 2017. Other published work appears in literary journals, anthologies, online and recently in Tending the Fire, Native Voices and Portraits. Ms. Travis is a member of Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. She lives in the foothills of the Arbuckle Mountains of Oklahoma, near the land her ancestors settled in early Indian Territory days. She continues to write and give poetry presentations.
chickasawpress.com/Authors/Rebecca-Hatcher-Travis
Her second poetry book, Constant Fires, was released by White Dog Press, a division of Chickasaw Press, in October, 2017. Other published work appears in literary journals, anthologies, online and recently in Tending the Fire, Native Voices and Portraits. Ms. Travis is a member of Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. She lives in the foothills of the Arbuckle Mountains of Oklahoma, near the land her ancestors settled in early Indian Territory days. She continues to write and give poetry presentations.
chickasawpress.com/Authors/Rebecca-Hatcher-Travis
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