August 21, 2003
Awakened Woman's Circle is working for peace
Two poems
by Lisa Espenmiller
mid-afternoon rooster
"wake up!"
his bright blue cry
suspended
in the afternoon air -
you have mistaken
your bloodstream
for a river of worries.
imagine your self
empty,
your river unpolluted
by what you run toward,
what you run from.
technology
oranges arrive
from some remote summer.
apples appear
from a far away cold.
people struck dumb
when their pagers go down.
she no longer bleeds
with the moon.
she misses
the absence and return.
she's forgetting how
to yearn.
she's hungry
for seasons.
for cycles
for anything round.
Lisa Espenmiller is a Poet, Writer,
& Motherpeace Tarot Practitioner. Her poetry appears in
Moondance
<http://www.moondance.org/2003/crescent03/poetry/poem8.html>
Women's Studies Quarterly, Home Planet News,
<http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/>Coracle,
WomenWise, Sheila-Na-Gig, and The Black Bear
Review, along with many others. Her manuscript the
way it really happened was a semi-finalist in the 2000
Cleveland State Poetry Prize competition. Currently, she is
writing a collection of dream poems as well as working on
something she calls The Love Project.