1 25 712 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. Arianne True (Choctaw, Chickasaw) is a disabled queer poet and teaching artist from Seattle, and has spent most of her work time working with youth. She’s received fellowships and residencies from Jack Straw, Artist Trust, and the Seattle Repertory Theater, among others, and is a proud alum of Hedgebrook and of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She lives in Tacoma with her cat and is always questing for high-quality dairy-free baked goods. Arianne is the 2023-2025 Washington State Poet Laureate. Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/751">Bedtime Story: The Girl and the Quarter Moon</a></li> </ul> Region The region of Washington State in which the author lives or has lived. South Puget Sound Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Text Any textual data included in the document Preface I grew up on folk tales, not fairy tales at bedtime. a whole different set of stories and ways to tell them. different expectations. different lessons (I learned). my bedtime stories spoke of women finding ways not to be sacrificed. what I learned was people will leave you on the cliffside to wait for a monster who is coming to devour you—for their own peace what I learned was people will think some things are too big to fight and the way to get by in their shadow is to let women die to sate it what I learned was most of the time, you save yourself. you find a way to be clever or fast or loving enough to stop the monstrous cycle right before its jaws close around you. what I learned was not to expect to be saved but to know that if I was good enough at the right, constantly-changing things, I could save myself, most times. this carries through. still doing it. just learning now how to maybe stop playing this story out. I am tired of having to find the right way to be good enough to be allowed to survive. to claw out my own place with the paw I struck from the monster you left me out to feed. tired of the blood running down my body, from my body, leaving my body, leaving my body curled and confined in the softest things I have, but still, the nest I make for myself feels some days more like I have padded the trap I was set in as bait. lined the metal teeth with batting. they’ll still bruise, you know, through that. can still break an unsettled bone. some days it feels like there is no way I leave the trap and it doesn’t spring. Chapter 1 a quarter moon is a half moon, there are two ways of thinking about it. a full moon could be called a half moon, on the logic of a quarter moon – halfway through the cycle. there is no half moon, officially. whatever that means. which officials. sounds like there are two half moons to me. Chapter 2 I see half of the face that faces me. we call it quarter because of the cycle, the whole cycle of new moon to new moon, and this half-face marks the one-quarter point. but reading up on quarter moons, looking at diagrams of moon cycles, her face emerges in a new way, and the quarter I see is the quarter of the whole spherical moon, she round in every dimension. that far dark. calling her half-lit face quarter an answer, maybe, to the half we never see. this is what persuades me to quarter moon over half moon. all we can ever have is half the moon. and quarter moon reminds us that half the time, all we see is just half of that. Chapter 3 autism gave me words for things I was already doing: like masking. it applies elsewhere too, though, has shown up so many places in my life full of nooks, full of places someone else wants to forget. this is when, masking is when, you feel safer hiding who and how you be because the society you live in has convinced you (often accurately – this part stings the most) that if you do not hide you, Bad Things will happen. to you. around you. because of you. and your not-hiding. it says do not show your autism. your adhd. your POTS, EDS, the other three, or what ill looks like in your body. do not show the way joy needs to fizzle out every finger when you get overwhelmed with it. do not show how some sounds, like the sound of the scrape of that knife on the ceramic plate, sizzle through your brain, pain searing and shaking you from the inside, literal pain, do not show it. do not show how hard it is to walk during a POTS episode, how hard it is to walk with long Covid, how hard it is to walk with two feet injured from your connective tissue disorder. do not need a wheelchair. do not look how you look when you need a wheelchair and don’t have one. do not look how you look when you need. do not let the expression drop fast from your face when you run out of the energy that holds it on. do not hold an expression (out of habit) past when you feel it. but do learn to fake the expressions that make other people feel comfortable. like the ones that make them feel like you’re listening because it’s how they listen, but keeping up the Listen face takes all your focus and you don’t hear a word. learn to hold these faces all day: at school, at work, around strangers, around people who insist that you’re friends. do not let these expressions drop. no matter what you miss. do not let them drop. Chapter 4 before I learned what masking was and what I really sounded like inside, with the filter of everyone else scrubbed off and my flesh close to bloody from it, before then I only ever showed a quarter moon. it was all I felt allowed. Chapter 5 there are two quarter moons: first and third. quarters. one is easy to see, it’s an evening rise, visible around sunset. the other, third quarter moon, is up when we are, most of us, asleep. the full moon is so bright with sun that the details get lost in the glare. this tenth-bright half-face quarter is where you see the relief of craters. I am told even binoculars will get you there. and see, when it is just the first quarter moon you see, that sunset staple, you will only know the ridges on a single side, one half of the moon. [interjection – one quarter. still half her face is always back, back away, you will only see half a half. it’s simple math. you may never see the other craters. and that can be okay. but you may never know that’s all you have. and not knowing is a different story.][whispered: you did not realize I was missing so many essential somethings.] Chapter 6 one eye cannot see the other. on a human face, on a moon face. I didn’t know I was missing the other half, the other half a half, either. it’s these past few years that have retaught me myself, the selves I found and then lost as a child, a tween, a teen, a twenty-something. even in private, I did not have me, not— not even close to the way it is now. this gift of my own fullness, access to a more actual me, one of the many strange presents illness has left at my door so far. I am glad I chose to unwrap. Chapter 7 but where did I really learn to hide? who taught me the world wasn’t safe for me? an inventory of me in the context of this country provides a case for hiding: my tribes survived based on how well they became invisible to white eyes the statistics for women receiving violence remain shocking a recent trip to australia drove this home: I noticed myself telling men when they were doing wrong and yelling at them when politeness didn’t work and for once, didn’t fear for my safety. a miracle. on returning home, I told a female friend about it. she said it sounded like an alternate universe. the time, less than five years ago, I had to hide in the basement of my house while my drunk, violent neighbor hurled homophobic slurs at the front door. last fall, when I felt a new foot injury burn into life, but was walking home alone, late, and remembered what they tell young gazelles: they pick off the weak and the sickly. do not look sickly. do not limp. you have to look strong enough to fight them off so they don’t try. and how much worse the pain was when I got home / from bearing all that weight. I’m not ready to tell strangers the inventories for being autistic ace both chronically and intergenerationally poor I’m not ready to talk about the intersections but another strange gift of illness: all this extra time I spend at home is time I’m not being harassed. Chapter 8 I don’t fault myself for hiding. I celebrate learning to come out anyway. I would like to get to make only that decision, to feel safe enough to always choose it. here is my request: consider—have you taught me to hide? you. every you. it can be smaller than you think. smaller than you think you can see. but I promise you can learn. wake up for the sunrise to see that other half moon, that other quarter, in detail. you will notice the craters. no microscope. no telescope. they are so visible when you look the right way. I have already shown you so many, close up. like this. Chapter 9 my love is one of the first to really see the back, the proverbial dark side of the moon, the half that gets forgotten when you call a quarter moon a half moon. she said she wanted to see whatever was there. I finally believed that what was there was worth loving, could be shown to the right people. and she was willing to walk around, to the side you can’t see from here, and I want to convey how sincere this is and how much that mattered. to someone who has been taught you hide whole selves to survive or be loved. it was old and it was recent. and she said “I want it all” and I said “I wouldn’t want anyone who wouldn’t” and these are why it’s different this time. Chapter 10 all the years of hiding and pushing through, saving yourself and finding the ways to be good enough not to be killed, living by the merit du jour, these will run you into the ground. my bedtime stories would always end before the heroines could get the chronic illnesses we get when we overclock ourselves to survive. illnesses we then have to hide. the phases are a cycle. new moon to new moon. have you ever seen the whole face? — <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/752" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Arianne True</a> Note: “Bedtime Story: the girl and the quarter moon” first appeared in ANMLY #39, October 2024. Content Warnings Warnings about any potentially harmful or triggering content present in the text. illness medical trauma violent imagery lack of acceptance Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. I’m a neurodivergent, chronically ill queer person and have lived in Bellingham, WA since 1996, when I was 18 years old. My great overarching special interest is food, and I cook and bake all manner of seasonal vegetarian food. I am also an avid motorcyclist, especially motocamping, and am working on becoming a published motorcycle travelogue author. In my spare time, I read a lot of nonfiction science and anthropology, as well as science fiction, classic literature, short stories, and poetry, including Spanish language poetry. When I was a child, on long car trips, I used to think the moon followed me home. 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Title A name given to the resource Cordelia Ridley, xe/xyr or they/them Author Tag: activist Author Tag: atheist Author Tag: bisexual Author Tag: demisexual Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: genderqueer Author Tag: impacted by poverty Author Tag: low-income Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: pansexual Author Tag: parent Author Tag: queer https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/81174/archive/files/9cd639b6a476865b005e5c0548f0fe82.m4a?Expires=1779926400&Signature=OEpJjYteZBMah7WIRvcVuatfhE8KK3Dq2npBV5JEkc%7EtTEl7PaVSYmooFVV64PfkPRKrhvfWp19G%7E0duDSbGksuM%7EVbmsvFq60fCr0IJNAu7w%7EwRYI8QzQRfD-KGBCFnkUxEr7P-s-k34uscbUZKuOIgyue%7EFRQIkwkcmbB1BkoSZQTKMZqkGSgoZRzdQC1HxlU7KlvW0pIQrduHHeu0DeMcUmzl13nsZEjaHSZsqjNcDYXyIObh6yGjb37uXrLFmXs95ANp5KO1II3KFj7c7m7eBStWFlVuL-lCGK1mJ0V551Se0iw4hkXDfM3UOpu1ljsYr8fwM6wF7Z2vzVUHiw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 8540c011efd6b93bdfe5cc276043f02b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document I have been as full as your beauty since I met you. Now this glowing with your rays is all to me. Let me be your moon. Let me circle around your beauty in awe of the honor of spinning. Let me taste you like cream from the top of sunlight's milk. Let me feel your pull change the rhythms of my inner tides. Pull me in towards your deep, dry ocean of dreams. Let me come to you behind midnight clouds. Let me see you in secrecy. Do you sleep beneath those charcoal veils or when you hide from prying eyes, full in your newness? Let me slip into that dark with you, and sit by your side and strain to feel the moonbeams of your dreams. Let me sing you to sleep, for you have taught me to sing, singing softly in those silent moments alone with you, moon. Let me come to you nightly, like a lover. Let me read to you the poems you have written on my heart. Let me touch you, moon, that I might know you are true. Let your light stain my fingers and remain in my blood. —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/750">Cordelia Ridley, xe/xyr or they/them</a> Note: you can listen to this poem read by the author, accessible via the Files. Content Warnings Warnings about any potentially harmful or triggering content present in the text. sensuality Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource love poem to the moon Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cordelia Ridley, xe/xyr or they/them Author Tag: activist Author Tag: atheist Author Tag: bisexual Author Tag: demisexual Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: genderqueer Author Tag: impacted by poverty Author Tag: low-income Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: pansexual Author Tag: parent Author Tag: queer Content Notice: sensuality Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. Oliver Brickman is a queer Jewish writer and performer invested in liberatory futures and reckoning with ghosts. The winner of the Split This Rock Poetry Prize, they have also received support from Hedgebrook, the Lambda Literary Foundation, The Yiddish Book Center, 4Culture, Artist Trust, and The Bloedel Reserve. Recent work has appeared in Narrative, Adroit, The Indiana Review, On the Boards' Performance Lab, and in the anthology Ghosts of Seattle Past. Oliver holds an MFA from the University of Virginia and lives in Seattle, where they work in a library, take care of 150 houseplants, and teach writing to youth and adults. Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/747">At 15, I Tell My Mother I am Going To the Queer-Straight Alliance Sleepover</a></li> </ul> Region The region of Washington State in which the author lives or has lived. North Puget Sound Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document *Note: Because of the formatting of this poem, it cannot be displayed on screen. Please read it as a PDF, accessible via the Files. Author: <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/748">Oliver Brickman, they/them</a> Content Warnings Warnings about any potentially harmful or triggering content present in the text. lack of acceptance swearing Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource At 15, I Tell My Mother I am Going To the Queer-Straight Alliance Sleepover Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Oliver Brickman, they/them Author Tag: activist Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: gay Author Tag: genderqueer Author Tag: Jewish Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: queer Author Tag: transgender Author Tag: white Content Notice: lack of acceptance Content Notice: swearing Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. Hello fellow human, I am Patricia, a proud enrolled member of the Makah Tribe, and a being who is working on becoming who/whatever I am here to be. I work in the realm of spirit in my private healing practice and find poetry a natural and easy companion there. Healing ancestral and generational wounds in myself and facilitating this work in/for others has become my life’s passion. When I’m not writing or doing soul midwife work you can find me keeping up with farm chores and tending to our garden as she grows. Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/745">Pull Out in the Living Room</a></li> </ul> Region The region of Washington State in which the author lives or has lived. Peninsula/Coastal Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Patricia Buckingham (she/they) Author Tag: American Indigenous/Alaska Native Author Tag: genderqueer Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: pansexual Author Tag: Rural community member Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Text Any textual data included in the document I tucked you away so easily for thanksgiving you came back out when sickness brought more bodies than home had beds you came back out in necessity needing to transform once again into a space for healing for holding for three moons you have been out providing a respite cave for dog and child alike a place to lay down that isn’t bed that doesn’t feel like “going back to bed” cuz I already did that got out of bed today, once is enough It feels like time for couch once again how do I know, shoulder shrug I just do keeping you out is feeling a bit stuck now and putting you in feels way too much why does absolutely everything have to feel so big, heavy, impossible I know I could do it I could take each blanket off wash the sheets fold everything up put it all away I could do that I could fold you into yourself put your cushions back on cover you with something pretty pillow you a bit I don’t want to though and I don’t want to be tough and power through I wanna ask for help I wanna let someone help me I wanna let my people love me I wanna open up my heart and RECeiVE so I’m gonna let someone else put you back up I’m gonna be okay going back to bed I’m gonna be okay getting up out of it as many times as it takes and I am going to not be so strong practice is something I believe in and believing in something matters so I practice being soft, bending like cedar bows dancing on wind. —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/746">Patricia Buckingham (she/they)</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pull Out in the Living Room Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Patricia Buckingham (she/they) Author Tag: American Indigenous/Alaska Native Author Tag: genderqueer Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: pansexual Author Tag: Rural community member Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. Melanie Noel is the author of The Monarchs, a book of poems, and a chapbook called a ringing. Her poems have also appeared in Lana Turner and La Norda Especialo and she once curated Impala, a reading series that took place in her grandmother’s car. Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/743">BELONGING/EXUBERANCE</a></li> </ul> Region The region of Washington State in which the author lives or has lived. Peninsula/Coastal Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document The rock’s cloud body glimmers above it. Invisible bells intersex the clod & cloud. Wednesday of gender. Ludovic enters his X through La Monde du Pam. Saturday night of Wednesday. The one I love enters his apartment through the gown shop. The rock’s cloud body glimmers below it in the ground. Pandrogynous snowflakes melt on the rock bodies of the clouds. Through the gown shop, my love enters. The sexual still lives are far off. The cloud’s rock body falls asleep in the cigarette. The rock’s cloud body packs the gown. —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/744">Melanie Noel, she/her</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document *Note: Because of the formatting of this poem, it cannot be displayed on screen. Please read it as a PDF, accessible via the Files. Author: <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/719">Jourdan Imani Keith (she/her/sir)</a> Content Warnings Warnings about any potentially harmful or triggering content present in the text. grief abuse or trauma Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource To My Friend Who Looked Away When I Couldn't Answer the Question How are you? Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jourdan Imani Keith (she/her/sir) Author Tag: activist Author Tag: Black or African American Author Tag: Christian Author Tag: queer Content Notice: grief Content Notice: trauma or abuse https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/81174/archive/files/8e308ff343077876c31f9ed358331e6b.pdf?Expires=1779926400&Signature=vARxaOuPSEN6Eb38K%7EYSqL3vw-uaVF8KNT9nVG-T4Y%7ED9XtzfXTuSn8lpEY45VRicQO%7EQKkYcW409AOU00OZLJYBSddfI3eNJPUHJry5KDZSYn67JoKZG6C%7E5t51gFBYaB302vMzz3uA2o3Nu1zocOdn756eXcEi8A0xCjhEL%7E2NJ59XL0gVNljZ9xVJJVtBTznm8sX7nFbDrufrT2YcNA6OiQkcQZnT0%7EXb6WDhoRW4-x2seOTYPdpxygI1bqr-GtvK4SoZIMnT2HuY1lBwg8W2b9RCC55cfGgGyp6zd6FdSMOWyYXQQn0jAYKTUPNkuakAfEs0XJwnvEou9PVeLQ__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM acbebd18dc2796f956270920d5ccbf7a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document *Note: Because of the formatting of this poem, it cannot be displayed on screen. Please read it as a PDF, accessible via the Files. Author: <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/571">Haines Whitacre</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Navel Architect Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Haines Whitacre Author Tag: lesbian Author Tag: Transsexual Woman Author Tag: white Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. Roin Morigeau makes art, beadwork, and practices their Salish language as a way to stay connected to community and share story. They live in Spokane, WA with their family. Roin is a stʕámiyaʔ artist, beadworker, and parent living in their hometown of Sƛ̓x̌atkʷ (Spokane, WA). Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/737">Past</a></li> <li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/738">Present</a></li> <li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/739">Future</a></li> </ul> Region The region of Washington State in which the author lives or has lived. Northeast Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Roin Morigeau https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/81174/archive/files/cf1873a7f1f234ad019eba5f6dd3e318.pdf?Expires=1779926400&Signature=dtWARfHGwtqn1JIoWcNOLirny7oewQPu73vDHtJTGhe4ZH0rporDAXqtAbDCmuRODlErGSaON3R1T-GzmmLUJGF9LU1XS2WUR2ROYzgVN5Y-4FxJyaTmXM0ftf5LfQW-nAr1-q1mnZ%7Erx3YjW4guoClqJBlD8FiEilsBcwLpieCaPfMWrhiEmVYE4xjZAWb4f9Q-p9ilQ7KiUAXGi797WiDa8bgCAY-4yhl-kt5033Oyp20fkBriO0smbfkJ2kW9G8yEI5zWC-gwbXqqZxCsFM3brUmXlipISGnn%7EYWkUPi35vIS3ZX4fiiJDYuGvXPM9DsGI9nKylvdjHw3zNycjw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 8476f317fdb14bd905d55ec1f214d3a6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document *Note: Because of the formatting of this poem, it cannot be displayed on screen. Please read it as a PDF, accessible via the Files. Author: <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/740">Roin Morigeau</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Future Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Roin Morigeau https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/81174/archive/files/67bd0f3eaada938e0d54aa9eff5e2d9a.pdf?Expires=1779926400&Signature=EWASTKbBguYsD9ctu4bZlrQe5SVY5HE26E-8j5aIricQisbOI2vZ1AENuCrvyjRIbwTaiLzgkEfldZleWerLVxA92CO2pGnkebOnNPJdk63SKWylQ08th43AhyEbzJbLD0uNhcrCFl5EqRBzp2RhYKamA%7Eaai0e3mjTPOpnMCLPw%7E%7EMKaK5UGQjZy4RyfDOBhjxMwaBH5lyAgWfCQC2810xhPjGXGMWKAmfg%7Ebo47cmOH7PgJYGKkcC04B5sOVtm7%7ELQyI16IJJZd64ioKPYZs82gPas6YlTdxTCrHgaVH0zeLBKkbDiPNZxsn5r3txWyBtabjK2CsyZp-YNxvclZA__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM b3e9ebf43dbc7c4ff7a1aab048b1c174 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document *Note: Because of the formatting of this poem, it cannot be displayed on screen. Please read it as a PDF, accessible via the Files. Author: <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/740">Roin Morigeau</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Present Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Roin Morigeau https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/81174/archive/files/3ab045e976adbe0e391b7789be340163.pdf?Expires=1779926400&Signature=hI3phwRjQCqpUrHa2-ScLGO%7EI967OI633LBmXxqlqoLLWzepWzNxrNru8UBM9ji3NGVR9Txr6PfNBVrpp492Ku9dU6V4PLUY4j3nDarIkfvNDA6pi3VHsoJMRYvoopFKiPmpsXUNQ6bRiVvclH-V39MmM2T20pWz7ZTT%7ENISSzZOo08lNZKBU1c6hMhTUOXo%7ExcDtYQz1sdH7vcZf9BSf7MO85Trmm0TfU4B6WkahfuOcZFrvM1Qyy3emL30XYzu0GS8OkBv%7EbnKCy9C1muQPO7Qo0o6QBUYubieQ0otpSWCrjoyDE32cDa2mgrcIF2aE23IwnQz7e9B-V0iR3m9xg__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM eb6218243b286a3ce3e5f68ba425235f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document *Note: Because of the formatting of this poem, it cannot be displayed on screen. Please read it as a PDF, accessible via the Files. Author: <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/740">Roin Morigeau</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Past Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Roin Morigeau Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. I am a retired instructor of feminism, disability studies an American Studies from Western Washington University. I am also a poet an creative nonfiction writer. I have been married to my wife for 35 years. I love birds and dogs. Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/735">Marriage Refund</a></li> </ul> Region The region of Washington State in which the author lives or has lived. Northwest Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kate Miller Author Tag: activist Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: genderqueer Author Tag: lesbian Author Tag: mixed race Author Tag: queer Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document Anniversary The check arrived in the mail yesterday, a $60.00 refund for our marriage license stating that the Oregon Supreme Court has invalidated our union, all nineteen years of it. People like us are not allowed to marry. I am: what they mean when they say “culture wars”, the reason our president was re-elected, a threat to every straight marriage, news of the fall of civilization, a sign of decaying morals, the wolf at the door of family values, even, one man said, quite possibly the cause of the destruction of the twin towers. I never knew I was that dangerous. Every morning over breakfast I hear on the radio the voices of those who hate me, those who make it their business to hate us for who we are and <p">who we love. According to them, our fight for equal rights to love and to marry, to fair housing and employment, to raise healthy children, to see ourselves reflected in positive ways in books and on TV, to let young gays and lesbians know they are not alone, to be safe in our homes and on the streets-- is just the homosexual “agenda”. Parents and preachers, lawyers and politicians, get a life I think, what would you do with your time if you didn’t have our dangerous love to fight? A sin is knowingly polluting the earth for profit, A sin is killing women, children, fathers and brothers and sons for oil or land or power. A sin is not thinking about our children’s children’s children with each decision that we make. My love is not a sin. I have a photograph of our handfasting ceremony, my right hand clasped over your left hand, fingers entwined, the red silk cord that binds us still spiraling up our arms. I remember that slow turn to face you, the unexpected power of our vows-- giving voice to promises we’ve been keeping, unstated, in all our years together. This much is true: I am a woman with grey in her hair, a mixed-blood Cherokee-Irish adoptee with two artificial hips and a couple of disabled welsh corgi dogs, I am teacher and writer and daughter and sister and friend and neighbor and, whether the city, the state or even the constitution recognizes or sanctions it, I am married to another woman, in heart, body, mind, in all my outlaw self. —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/736">Kate Miller</a> Content Warnings Warnings about any potentially harmful or triggering content present in the text. anti LGBTQ hate Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Marriage Refund Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kate Miller Author Tag: activist Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: genderqueer Author Tag: lesbian Author Tag: mixed race Author Tag: queer Content Notice: anti-LGBTQ hate https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/81174/archive/files/72acf791fc280b0411e4f43ebef879ee.pdf?Expires=1779926400&Signature=UDtiRxKTNlxJxayijFXPAZLy43lpessbEmQ9w2bRkUUhmm1KEV9d5MLbfJsjmrePAv0PIIQZKTuSMAPIpTh3o4nhq0SgjFsv87PJL3VeHrpwGCIAlzdAqi1kg22KDhgtskHEL2EQuOU88j1TnQBlf0roaIYn1oCsAG%7ESspfjfL4H6GCo8SmnHk0tK1joAQLpiHD7vMGsGmTR1VcHTsJYBzVqEZbMiRnrY18NmMMAqbaK5nflA6kCdsp689TB6F0GSYP8N467lOWg74TfTH8wxy-nazF3IfMEBW3Ser9BawypSOYEXwqLwk9VNQWVoikLXsSDXA%7EQ8kPko5mrH1KO0w__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 8b35f1f3a8e8187cd6b3449b9854e72f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document *Note: Because of the formatting of this poem, it cannot be displayed on screen. Please read it as a PDF, accessible via the Files. Author: <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/469">Robin H</a> Content Warnings Warnings about any potentially harmful or triggering content present in the text. environmental trauma Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Baking Cupcakes as the World Burns Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Robin H Author Tag: activist Author Tag: Christian Author Tag: genderfluid Author Tag: genderqueer Author Tag: homeschooler/unschooler Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: pansexual Author Tag: white Author Tag: younger sister Content Notice: environmental trauma Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. Taylar Christianson is a poet from western Washington State. Their work has been published in Sinister Wisdom, Sweet Tree Review, and Jeopardy Magazine, where they were awarded the Don and Elaine Westhoff Jeopardy Magazine Award for Poetry in 2024. Their poetry tends to return to patterns of viscera, saltwater, repetition, junk, and women with problems. Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/731">smooth butter fog</a></li> <li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/732">Byline</a></li> </ul> Region The region of Washington State in which the author lives or has lived. Northwest Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document *Note: Because of the formatting of this poem, it cannot be displayed on screen. Please read it as a PDF, accessible via the Files. Author: <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/733">Taylar Christianson</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document *Note: Because of the formatting of this poem, it cannot be displayed on screen. Please read it as a PDF, accessible via the Files. 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Title A name given to the resource smooth butter fog Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Taylar Christianson Author Tag: genderqueer Author Tag: lesbian Content Notice: sensuality Content Notice: swearing https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/81174/archive/files/136a44a90b517a25d90c5653ec75faf3.jpg?Expires=1779926400&Signature=QLNyAONqzgbbz5GJx5qN66ofBrbSmvTiPRyR-%7E7F9Fjdfj%7EPAr1xIxEQS44e3cXawHTlN0hWsgMalXiLORGyu6mSPdEf0bH7f088hHKWHiZMp7h%7E1sqZC4scsP2kThjQ1TesbS84NbiOX14NTdeHGotGmeuN-kLSUG6GeVbUIAEHEFAQvIlC09QdV3ECryiRLT6wVKjcbkcVbqLT8nLk4d6SzsifbUfr4QB4-OmFxrk21OF%7ExWc%7ECGk6pG4E2B4mLIz2H68U9Egyf1sMlPhbRf9I5lcTYl99CF%7EpVo%7EpZQsMTWjpgVq-DJTyvKDNi28jGizWncdLlFJVrp%7EC9wi%7EXw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 0911e8491c8b65af6d880b02ac0f390b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document *Note: Because of the formatting of this poem, it cannot be displayed on screen. Please read it as a PDF, accessible via the Files. Author: <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/375">Poppy Yozh (they/them)</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Root Bound Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Poppy Yozh (they/them) Author Tag: activist Author Tag: demisexual Author Tag: gay Author Tag: impacted by poverty Author Tag: low-income Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: polyamorous Author Tag: Polysexual Author Tag: queer Author Tag: transgender Author Tag: white Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. "I'm brought to my knees by stories of love unleashed - full openness, full brokenness - resilience and meaning captured through poetic voice, those intimacies the heart's chambers were built for." Karen’s the author of "The Co-Parenting Handbook" published in 2017 - translated into Spanish, Greek and Japanese as well as “The Stepfamily Handbook.” After 44 years of working with families, Karen has turned her attention to celebrating the grief and grace that comes with aging - women's relationships to nature, to themselves, to one another. She looks for the unabashed power of love; holiness found in silence, the space between the words, the breath. Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/727">Learning a Foreign Language</a></li> <li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/728">Falling</a></li> </ul> Region The region of Washington State in which the author lives or has lived. North Puget Sound Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Karen S Bonnell Author Tag: lesbian https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/81174/archive/files/e938e650e075595ed0d9f75c4374216d.jpg?Expires=1779926400&Signature=S5uxdIYTuv090RxlrFB-0TwdSllRg8tNYVqKcBf0nTOv4FjlWf6QhVz2RQSNgOB4Hj5rd23ewSYMYB5jJ2Mblha916f3cCl4ksLkUeLrDPr--c1F4ruEbFJAMctMAgtnpfNYUghdvbeTIDe7dc1k3IrK77oiS0gPhlusO-z8UTDTI17ZzlHmJLCbmLLgDbEkKKPCcHYexrQCjfLEy6%7EUias1cEmOL%7Ed6eXRGxOT3Sra1aguSZp-B-Kow6znU%7EmEy7fmOOYCm5zq2wfos5btNGuVILqDJwHN4kyiXqI9PPOXB-w8nGJWb9kDf%7EuKDWo9lu9on71moxuyKyTe3A2WjuQ__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 06e9c6f549b8854ae6e1d60003b2f59f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document 1. We all fall out of cars when we’re three— when the excitement to climb down ourselves puts our center of gravity in front of our skill level, our little forehead in front of our feet, out of windows in Moscow for talking trash about Putin— and that’s why we don’t live in Moscow, off a bicycle at least once— it’s a rite of passage impossible to avoid. We fall from grace no matter how hard we try, from pedestals too high—elevated by another’s need. We fall into the wrong crowd when our parents aren’t looking. We fall out of favor, out of fashion, or all over ourselves to prove a point. We fall in love and out again; we fall apart and start again. We might fall clipping a sandal toe on the edge of a sidewalk buckled from the heat or by slipping on black ice lying in wait under a dusting of snow, or we could lose our balance stubbing a tree root along the path— a full-frontal faceplant. Lots of bleeding, but by grace, the very same we fell from, nothing breaks— not a tooth, not a nose, not a lens in our brand-new designer glasses, nothing except our confidence. Blood pouring from our nose into our hands, dripping off our chin where a flap of skin now dangles, proceeds down the forearms in search of an elbow. We’re exercising every blood-stopping skill learned over years of practice— as a kid, with our children, for an aging parent unexpectedly fainting in the kitchen. Finally, the last drops fall. We look as if we’ve just torn open a small animal with our bare hands and feasted on its heart for breakfast. Disbelief gathers up presence of mind— we get up. Sheer determination steps in to escort us back to the car. We don’t give a second thought to what’s happened to our confidence the confidence left lying in blood-soaked dirt no ceremony, not even a good-bye. 2. Snow falls, leaves fall, water falls over a cliff. But unlike snowflakes, or leaves in autumn, or waterfalls diving into pools far below, we’re propelled by an intrepid resolve to get back up. Falling off your bike at seven is a temporary setback on the road to mastering balance on ever bigger bikes. Falling face first at seventy is a turning point—a switchback where independence takes on hiking poles and Life Alerts dangling around our necks. Ask the once free-flying, twirling snowflake how she feels ending her journey face-first, nestled in a snowdrift— each one with the only confidence they have left they’ll never twirl like that again. —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/729">Karen S Bonnell</a> Photo credits: Mountain photo by Ainur Khakimov on Unsplash, Snowflake photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash Content Warnings Warnings about any potentially harmful or triggering content present in the text. visceral body imagery violence violent imagery Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Falling Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Karen S Bonnell Author Tag: compassionate listener Author Tag: Family law change-agent Author Tag: grandmother Author Tag: lesbian Author Tag: mentor Author Tag: parent Content Notice: violence Content Notice: violent imagery Content Notice: visceral body imagery