Leara writes and other creative things…
Portfolio including poetry and flash fiction from micro fiction to short stories and a bit of photography thrown in for good measure.
Trauma is etched in bone—
A white-hot brand pressed into soft tissue—
Eviscerated souls swirl like New Year’s confetti in the chilly winter breeze,
Lost—
A rising flood, disorienting—
Home, unrecognizable—
It’s not my trauma,
But it is, and it will be,
And my children’s, and their children’s as well—
Etched in bone, branded in soul—
Shredded hearts remember even when we have forgotten—
My glass is sweating
And so am I
It’s hot as, well
You know,
This 4th of July
Southern summers,
It’s hard to beat the heat
So I’ll sit my bare bottom on this
Frozen seat
Mistakes were made-
Ice is nice in my tea
But a block of ice
To cool down my tail
Is not risk-free
Take it from me
And my cold ass cheeks
Now adhered to this chilly chair,
Not all ideas are created equal
Or good for one’s derriere
The prompt is “cold ass cheeks” from Maria Giesbrecht @theguelphpoet on Instagram. April 14, National Poetry Month 2022.
Today we awoke to everything covered in ice.
– DE MONTE Y MAR’s Tuesdays of Texture: Week 3 of 2018 & On Dragonfly Wings with Buttercup Tea’s Sunday Trees #323 – January 21, 2018. Photo ©2018 Leara Nicole Morris-Clark.
I am a bit late getting this posted because of the holidays and such but I wanted to blog about it before the show ends.
I had two photos selected to hang in the Worcester City Hall Gallery for the theme of Fire & Ice.
WHERE?
Art Gallery/Basement Hallway (to garage)
Worcester City Hall
455 Main Street
Worcester, MA
WHEN?
The show runs from November 30, 2017, through February 2018.
The Spring show is coming up. The theme is “Rebirth.” I am considering entering again. It’s always fun to have art hanging in a gallery. The shows are sponsored by Worcester Cultural Coalition. If you are interested in entering, you can find more information here.
rhythmic dripping of
icicles in winter sun –
a slow morning burn
– Written for Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge #180. Word prompts were “slow” & “burn” or synonyms of those. Photo from pxhere.com.
Leara writes and other creative things... 