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Willawaw Journal Winter 2018 Issue 5

The 5th issue of Willawaw, Winter 2018, features a  poem prompt from Poet Laureate Elizabeth Woody, My Brother, and an invitation from the editor to explore the Cebu (details on the submission page). Regarding images, collages predominate!

Cover Art:  "Power Within" 12"x 12" collage by Yeva Chisholm
Editor's Notes
Page 1:  Carolyn Adams   Matthew D. Allen   Tiel Aisha Ansari   Delores Pollard 
Page 2:  Linda Knowlton Appel   Frank Babcock   Amy Baskin   Dale Champlin   Yeva Chisholm   .chisaraokwu.
Page 3:  Margaret Chula   Holly Day   Salvatore Difalco   Gyl Gita Elliott   Erric Emerson   Delores Pollard
Page 4:  Amelia Diaz Ettinger   Abigail George   Brigitte Goetze  Benjamin Gorman   Isa Jennings   Linda Wimberly   
Page 5:  Karen Jones   SR Jones   Nancy Knowles   Gary Lark   Delores Pollard   Laura LeHew
Page 6:  Joy McDowell   Catherine McGuire   Susan Morse   Yeva Chisholm   Marjorie Power  Khalisa Rae
Page 7:  Annie Stenzel   Pepper Trail   John Van Dreal   Feral Wilcox   Lalia Wilson   Vincent Wixon
Page 8: Elizabeth Woody   Back Page with Delores Pollard

Elizabeth Woody

My Brother

It was bruise marks of hands that alluded to tracks of murder.
Her neck was twisted too many times in short rope,
and the tree too high for a small woman.

“He was here.” He says,
“He came to her new Man,
too, and said that he was coming for him next.”

The nightmare is black tongue.
No footprints.
The form in the room
laughs, “Ha Ha, Goody!”
He sees that it is vapor.

Later, when he cuts her down,
he knows that she came to him,
to him, she laughed.
The night will not make her unhappy.

He had no time to hunt,
since he had to bury
three more brothers the next day.
Car wreck on ice.

The insidious soul danced across the river
to entice other women to death.

If he is man,
he is subject to will.
If one prefers Archangels,
he can be cast into oblivion.

That does not comfort the people
and we must battle
with Bell and Prayer, for the brother.
This will take up the nights
and the rest of our thoughts.
The brother has seen the foreshadowing of events.
He will bring the damned down in his fisherman’s grip
into the mad boil of the river’s strength.

 

From Luminaries of the Humble by Elizabeth Woody.  © 1994 The Arizona Board of Regents.  Reprinted by permission of the University of Arizona Press.

Back Page with Delores Pollard

Where You Have Been is But a Shadow of Who You Are–30″ x 40″ Mixed Media Collage

Delores Pollard, a native of Montana, says she is attempting to tame the wildness of her art. She had her first solo art exhibit this Fall at Pegasus Gallery in Corvallis where you may purchase some of her works. Returning to art at the age of 70, she uses magazine pages as her paint, working intuitively and guided by the temperature of emotion she senses in different colors. Pollard has had art lessons since she was 10 years old and makes conscious use of the rules or breaks them on purpose in order to access the transformative powers of art. Learn more at call2Heartinlight,com  

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