Common Language Project

Eyes shining, she chose to emergeFrom boundaries that confineSo she could stretch her wingsGive music to the muted criesSounding aloud to the horizonShe chose to reveal her joyTo escape the…

Alexandra, Princess of Greece and Denmark,the last queen of Yugoslavia, never set foot in her adopted country,bound to the exile she had known since birth. Her legitimacy was muted aloud…

-1. Obscure conceit: This spillage of being is a sticky lie of the womb, a crush to confine making everything corporeal escape into light. I don’t care to be the organ…

The After Death His escape from life was merely a shift in his seat. A shadow he didn’t have time to turn toward. The terror of his death was all…

Shining field, present brook, do not abandon me.Obscure terror lurks in my present, But I am bound by this organ that does mystify me.I cannot escape. What is the source,…

When I look at myself in the mirror, to myself I say I am proudBut it doesn’t seem true, when I utter these same words aloud Overworking myself daily, which…

The moon up and sky clear lay the nightscapeIn arrangements of frost hardeningThe cast of light, sharpening the loom of shadow.What relief can emergeFrom this dry brook’s carve Scoring its…

Would she emerge from this experience intactOr would it reveal details in her soulThat would render her unable to stretchBeyond whatever was feeding her terror It would mystify her to…

Burnish the already-shining curve, fettle the edges again.Pull your stitches tighter and let no errant thread escape.Carve carefully, allowing the shape to emerge,   then render details, sustaining shadow, figure, and…