This is your landscape. Talk about your journey. What is not happening is just as important as what is happening. You are creating space with your poems and with your words. Your poems have substance. Images and metaphors have tangible qualities that engage and fill the the room with impressions.
It is important to go slow when you read your poetry. Take time to pause and look at your audience. Listen carefully, you will know your listeners caring hearts by their stillness. You will hear them listening. Their silence has sound.
As the medicine
goes through your blood
you lie still
apparatus around you beeps
and you jump
we jump
at the thought of it
your belly is red
the tubes are clear
your arm taught
from needles and tape
and cotton
and your mother
like cotton
comes to you religiously
she stands over you
and sings
her music
echoes in your ears
and in the room
the whole room becomes full
of you and your mother
she touches you
and you feel her softness
she holds your hand
you feel her gentle fingertips
she comes closer
and your pain disappears
when she is near
your world changes
Joanne Leva
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