Lisa Alvarado is a poet, novelist and journalist, and performance artist, whose 1 woman show, The Housekeeper's Diary has toured nationally to rave reviews. She is the author of Sister Chicas (Penguin, 2006), and Raw Silk Suture (Floricanto Press, 2008). Lisa is also a visual artist, whose contribution to the traveling exhibit, The Distaff Toolkit, will be exhibited throughout the country through 2011.
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For: MB
It's about peace in the body.
The little miracle of how we undo each other as we make love.
And undone, we let go for a sliver of time
the days of disappointment.
Burdens and betrayals knotting nerve and sinew and bone
dissolve in the O of our mouths.
Arms around each other.
Circle of skin.
We breathe together,
simple and clear.
Stillness in your smile, my smile.
Stillness and then laughter. |
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