The market was a living thing. Its flesh was mounds of mangoes, sweet sop, naseberry, bananas. The steady calls of the higglers, its rapid heart. And those women with heads tied with colorful scarves, and legs splayed wide with skirts cascading between like waterfalls, were its bones.
Tag: Gathering the Waters
2018 Participating Writers Bookshelf
books published by the Participating Writers for 2018 Hobart Festival of Women Writers.
Spotlight: Keisha-Gaye Anderson
A poem that uses nature or an historical figure to talk about love expands the reader’s understanding of love and opens new vistas of self-awareness. Poetry has the power to help us examine ourselves and provides us with a psycho-spiritual roadmap for evolution.
Hobart Festival of Women Writers 2023 