Belfast Poetry Festival 2019
lover's hair (pine)
human and acrylic hair, cotton and polyester thread
18" x 11" x 3.5"
2019
ponytail stitched with image of pine bough. Made in collaboration with poet Lisa Panepinto, for the Belfast Poetry Festival, October 2019.
wisdom for the wound
i knelt in my garden holding blossoms
the smell like honey
a neighbor came outside saying bigotry
from across the fence
that language is hurtful please don’t
say it anymore i said in the sunbeams
he called red sumacs weeds
though they are medicinal flames
wilted by a pale hand
sumac told me trees and horses
were friends of my mother
it’s men who start wars
it’s women who take care of one another
all wars stopped that’s what i like
prejudice should be illegal
copyright Lisa Panepinto, from, where i come from the fish have souls (spuyten duyvil, 2019)