Today's Giving Tuesday - following Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday. It's a day dedicated to not just getting things to give as gifts, but celebrating the intangible gifts that artists and non-profits provide year-round.
I'm offering this gift to you.
During the past few months, I've been collaborating with Michael Lancaster and Ellen Rosenberg. I'm sharing Michael's poetry and Ellen's photographs, based on Breach: Left Behind, performed at Lafayette College in September and October. Their encouragement, creativity, and support has been a constant gift to me.
May you enjoy this and the many gifts that you experience year-round this holiday season.
Name Us Peace
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Name Us Lost
Desperate souls, deathly
discrete, seek life,
seek yet company, like
dancers sole along
walls of despair.
Drifting, finding, joining
dancers together in
a simple singularity
of giddy relief, soon
rearranging in beauty.
Name Us Love
Hands, arms, cores, backs,
limbs secure each by each.
Bodies meet in recognition,
recognition and hope,
reuniting a savaged
communion; dance,
silent music, lovely
faces name its goodness.
Form protecting love, and
a moment of exquisite peace.
Name Us Dance
~Michael Lancaster, Oct 2016
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