Friday, March 30, 2007

Listen to a Poem

Click on the link below to hear me read my poem "The Good Science Experiment" about the strangeness of pregnancy and procreation.

http://www.arlingtonva.us/Departments/Topics/Documents/7614The_Good_Science_Experiment.mp3

This poem was a finalist in an Arlington READS competition about identity. Ten finalists, whose work was selected in a juried competition, read their work at a community poetry reading at the Shirlington library, on October 1, 2006.

Next Reading

Come see me read on Tuesday, April 24 at 7:30 PM:

Moving Words Poetry Reading : Winners of the 2007 Moving Words Poetry Competition for adults will read from their works at a poetry reading and reception at the Arlington Arts Center. Winners are Heather Davius, Bernadette Geyer, Jacqueline Jules, Miles David Moore, David Moss and Judith Turner-Yamamoto. Their poems will be displayed on Northern Virginia Metrobuses from April - September, 2007. Moving Words is sponsored by the Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority, Metro and the Arlington Department of Environmental Services Commuter Assistance Program. 7:30 p.m. Free. Arlington Arts Center 703-228-1841 http://www.arlingtonarts.org/cultural_affairs/movingwords.htm

Poem About Spit Up


Brooch


Mothers, wear it proudly, that splotch of spit-up
on your collar, shaped like nothing in particular. Pretend
it’s the most finely crafted brooch, concocted by a wild
artist from New Orleans who works in a dank swamp
beside her dogs and dark lover. All snakey hair
and languid eyes, she is outrageously beautiful, chock
full of voodoo. Did she call to you, voice like a river, then
point with her tick-tock hands till you had to have every
otherworldly piece of hers, no matter what the cost? She’s
terribly dangerous and every day you thank her.

--Heather Davis