1 25 4 https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/81174/archive/files/e938e650e075595ed0d9f75c4374216d.jpg?Expires=1776902400&Signature=AvAcvXTypHS0R5TdP5vDFRb-5A1z5BmOfHcqwimCrPEWzw7sJ7vS5kreBJwCggeqBosYnGF9-1Mk%7EoVsvRX7myXZPiPeFHenJNaD4DzMkkQ39MSVFkr3T80v7LkHegLt-JBHJBeZstit%7EETEmW64%7EOMxFImouSMpPVmC-lZFvCsy9ijDem0iy0e9JOFuRSCPcB7r8SrjYNYY6qvCFXRLIRRFkAkdr4hWCFFozrCsEfR7AUCPrR7Bew8KJCYOMYIKIBB8PkNoWpjJJYI-tVCZDnf9oiBp8AFLPwU5ClvfD3JlAg9OmQKpeE0MslAxe%7EDFTQuajnjiyI2R3PXU%7Es4lLQ__&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 https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/81174/archive/files/086577bda18640a1a43c9e4d2266ec8e.jpg?Expires=1776902400&Signature=uqOcUSRHrYTc00ZMW9EA%7EhXaEl4s37oSIc01oeFem6NWMYyMe6mjus7Ho0EZ%7Eb8I9XRv4WEPASsws0nS%7Ej%7EimezuYp57iUgT-i7CvwwJ3Jgko0ivIJH5waPDtV%7Ehf6wctKZW-r1uMjaJp%7EMiJs63HYMxFi%7ERdF7ajKzbEaB27XnjLcTlUM9X50fCRPVdEp6TtGoPPMiMiETxpWC%7EvfgrrRTcZVWkeRVg3%7EcExSLG7sWYesDBfXn4AbnY%7E5Onq0yKroloFOk0zGn8pJm3cp8ok0eZ49pnd5qmzvjZsIHzuyh2yJuYfYJPUvwZKHqLaxE6BKrb-CHflXHZGTBLrHd6DQ__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 55277ac12639db09607eab9d04f0b151 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 Sometimes poetry tests my patience. Poets arranging words dragged in from other worlds as if taking dictation from alien nation heads of state, prophets calling in spewing wisdom in an unfamiliar cadence, order and disorder, symbols and signs. Imagination forced to fill gaping holes— a bridge too far, a channel too deep— leaping the tracks from one train of thought to another without warning. A novice, left alone at the station weighed down by carry-ons of confusion, exasperated, brow furrowed. Listen with your eyes closed. Maybe magic ... ... maybe madness. Teacher, “Today we’ll study this text.” Student, “But Rabbi, I don’t read Hebrew.” Teacher, “Your heart does.” —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/729">Karen S Bonnell</a> Photo credit: Photo by Vadim Orlov on iStock 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 Learning a Foreign Language 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 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 for Frank Gabrin, 3/31/20 The City. Streets are empty now, like you always wished when you lived here, that month or so of summer with no tourists, if you could bear the urinous aroma of subway stations. Lofty buildings split sunrays into angel wings, while you longed for a sudden shower to cool things off. City where my friends died in droves in the nineties. Back then, it was jam-packed with yellow cabs & Doc Martins & Keith Haring. Bistro patrons spilled onto sidewalks at noon, sipping Bloody Marys. Sounds of yowling sirens, blaring hip-hop, what-do-we-want? demos, funeral dirges. Today, the city has deflated, and another gay man dies in his lover’s arms. Originally Published at HIV Here and Now, April 8, 2020 — <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/56">Risa Denenberg</a> Content Warnings Warnings about any potentially harmful or triggering content present in the text. death AIDS epidemic 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 ER Doc Dies in Husband's Arms Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Risa Denenberg Author Tag: anti-racist Author Tag: grandmother Author Tag: Jewish Author Tag: lesbian Author Tag: socialist Content Notice: AIDS epidemic Content Notice: death 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. Risa Denenberg lives in Sequim, WA where she works as a nurse practitioner. She has published eight collections of poetry, most recently Rain/Dweller (MoonPath Press, 2023) and is currently writing a memoir titled Mother, Interrupted. Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/57" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">ER Doc Dies in Husband's Arms</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 Risa Denenberg Author Tag: anti-racist Author Tag: grandmother Author Tag: Jewish Author Tag: lesbian Author Tag: socialist