Tag Archives: Inspiration

a poem: sunset

Author: Shanna Jackson   |   Posted: July 14th, 2015   |   Read more

SUNSET Walking from the rain The light glistens in reflection Of seeing me again and again On the mountain looking another direction. The footsteps create patterns of ambiguity Settling slowly into a rhythm Outside the body, but in the heart Spacing, pacing as the lights dim. My song started at another time Strength and endurance […]

a poem: finisterre

Author: Shanna Jackson   |   Posted: July 14th, 2015   |   Read more

Finisterre “The road in the end taking the path the sun had taken, 
into the western sea, and the moon rising behind you 
as you stood where ground turned to ocean: no way 
to your future now but the way your shadow could take,
 walking before you across water, going where shadows go,
 no way […]

a poem

Author: Shanna Jackson   |   Posted: July 14th, 2015   |   Read more

“Stand still. The trees ahead and the bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known. The forest breathes. Listen. It answers, I have made this place around you, If you leave it you […]