{"id":2874,"date":"2016-01-20T03:18:37","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T03:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2874"},"modified":"2017-07-11T21:14:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T21:14:43","slug":"artifacts-of-womanhood-by-lana-bella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/artifacts-of-womanhood-by-lana-bella\/","title":{"rendered":"ARTIFACTS OF WOMANHOOD by Lana Bella"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Deliberation
Deliberation by Mario Sanchez Nevado<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

ARTIFACTS OF WOMANHOOD<\/h1>\n

by Lana Bella<\/p>\n

this body of sun and moon,
\na river of down-flow and shifting roots,
\nthis was my life where
\nswimming beneath the pelt of obsession
\nto taste the blistered, salted past
\nwas pressed into pockets of history,<\/p>\n

to be one of the enlightened
\nI must first retain the skin-traveled winters,
\nrise from hard clay summers
\nwith the things of greased feathers
\nscaled on my back,
\nI thought of that early parable when time dressed
\nin kindness
\nand mind grew fat
\nin the artifacts of womanhood–<\/p>\n

here I lay translating
\na blue-skinned future to a mercurial present,
\nand all the time I only hoped to empty
\nmyself from within,
\nlike a disease or grief,
\nlike a lousy weather over a downtrodden city,<\/p>\n

everything bent
\nto mimic the cellophane sweep
\nof the universe,
\nwith their long spines telescoping
\ntoward a single track wearing grooves over earth,
\nI stood once again, alone,
\nknowing in cross-ventilation of the now and then
\nthat vertiginously lingered and rescinded
\nthe reportage of my history
\nover and over,
\nat the same time–<\/p>\n

###<\/p>\n

A Pushcart nominee, Lana has a diverse work of poetry and fiction published and forthcoming with over 140 journals, including a chapbook with Crisis Chronicles Press (spring 2016), Ann Arbor Review, Chiron Review, Coe Review, Harbinger Asylum, Literary Orphans, Poetry Salzburg Review, Poetry Quarterly, QLRS (Singapore), Taj Mahal Review (India), Sein Und Werden (UK), White Rabbit (Chile)<\/em> and elsewhere, among others.<\/p>\n

Lana resides in the coastal town of Nha Trang, Vietnam, where she is a wife of a talking-wonder novelist, and a mom of two far-too-clever frolicsome imps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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