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AUTHORS RESPONDING TO ARTISTS

Janet
Ashford 

Lea
Callan

Jan
Edwards

Maureen
Eppstein

Doug
Fortier

Nona
Smith

Nancy

Wallace-Nelson

Norma
Watkins

Zelda
Zuniga


AUTHORS WRITING FOR ARTISTS

Henri
Bensussen

Alena
Deerwater

Susan
Fisher

Charles
Furey

Harriet
Gleeson

Jewels
Marcus

Fauna
Perkins

Ginny
Rorby

Donald
Shephard

Holly
Tannen
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Alena Deerwater
"Last Night I Dreamt Poetry"

Last night I dreamt poetry, 
dripping from the ceiling, 
a word at a time.

Landing first on my forehead,
then on heart, throat, belly, pelvis,
solar plexus, soul.

My toes were last.

They stretched with the 
tiniest of words
and rolled me over.

A drop landed on the back of my neck, 
expanding to my throat.

My voice is wet in anticipation.

Fingers (spilling words into the night) 
search for pen and notebook 
waiting by my bed – 
my dreamcatcher of ink-webbing
bound to a sacred hoop of paper.

Belly on the bare sheet,
I write, scribbles in the dark,
sleeping between words,
to dream the next.

Dear God,
May these black marks 
illuminated by light
shape-shift into words.

When morning rises, please,
help my waking self know
Love's midnight caresses.

Karen Bowers
Wish You Were Here
Water Media

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