Four

Four

Crow’s shadow slides
Down icy perch
Calling no one
Howls and hisses
Screaming, spitting
Echoes over
Empty morning
Of bitter air
And spiteful frost
Reverberates
Over concrete
And inside me

 

Mother’s Solstice and Her Sacred Bundle: The Child by LA Harris

By Savannah Sidle | Issue 11 (2017): Service | |

About Savannah Sidle

Savannah Sidle is a Qalipu Mi'kmaq First Nations woman from Newfoundland. She is a mother, a feminist, an activist, a member of the LGBTQ community, and a university student with a passion for taekwondo, Brazilian jujitsu, judo, and archery. She also enjoys photography, painting, and writing.

About LA Harris

LA Harris was born into a family of artists in Montreal, Quebec, where she currently resides. She has a BFA in film from Concordia University. She is a showcased painter, published poet, narrator and teacher. Interlinking multimedia is a distinctive feature found throughout her work. Strongly influenced by her Métis, Acadian and Irish background, her works explore the body and soul’s spiritual awakenings through the human narrative and its rest points of change. She is presently working on a spoken word and visual trilogy entitled “The Birthing Bowls.”

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