Category Archives: poetry

Guest artist: Nancy Ryan

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Diana Rico

Up Steps Before I knew this mesa. This cusp, This baked potato skin earth, Cracked from working, dust smooth from hard winters There was water, abundance, a natural migration of animals. The rabbit cheeked seed slowly, the snake lazed on … Continue reading →

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“My limbs are made glorious”

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Diana Rico

“The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day and dances in rhythmic measure. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth into each blade of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in … Continue reading →

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Philip Larkin’s “Water”

Posted on July 19, 2011 by Diana Rico

“Water” by Philip Larkin If I were called To construct a religion I should make use of water. Going to church Would entail a fording To dry, different clothes; My liturgy would employ Images of sousing, A furious devout drench, … Continue reading →

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Guest artist: Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Diana Rico

O season of sweet rains, rains fragrant as musk, Pour down, now, on all the friends of the Beloved! You are the tears of separation, of passion, You will water the dry mountain of the heart. O eye of storm-clouds! … Continue reading →

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Guest artist: Lynne Procope

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Diana Rico

Tender The morning after they first make love, she washes his hands at the kitchen sink. He stands close behind her, his arms round her body. In this hour they are both bare to the shimmering light of the window … Continue reading →

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Guest artist: Pascale Petit

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Diana Rico

What the Water Gave Me (VI) after Frida Kahlo This is how it is at the end– me lying in my bath                                      … Continue reading →

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Guest artist: E.A. “Tony” Mares

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Diana Rico

Otowi Bridge You see the swift current here and know there is white water all the way down to Cochiti dam twenty four miles away. You’ve crossed the Rio Grande at the Otowi Bridge. Look to your right and you’ll … Continue reading →

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Guest artist: Laura Mace

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Diana Rico

  I Write in Self-Defense I write in self-defense. I am 70% water. My bones are carefully architected calcium deposits left by the river of my circulation. The wild iron that reddens my blood was delicately mined by the filaments … Continue reading →

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Guest artists: JG Bertrand and Becca Tzigany

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Diana Rico

  The deities in the painting are Oshun, Mars and Venus. Oshun is the Afro-Caribbean goddess of the river, love, sexuality and beauty. This prayer–an excerpt from The Pillow Book of Venus and Her Lover: Reinventing the Myth–asks for purification … Continue reading →

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Guest artist: Judith Arcana

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Diana Rico

  The Light on the Water by Judith Arcana (always, writers say, the light on the water shines like diamonds, shines like gold but the truth is that gold, and that diamonds want only to shine like the light on … Continue reading →

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