Jess Woolford
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awakening
You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand? Hakuin Ekaku every child knows water is wonder crystallizing in clouds atmosphere where snow seeds sprout icy stars & storms scatter sparkle upon sparkle biding in basins ephemeral pools where tadpoles transform red efts enchant & bear cubs cool warbling through woods silver stream where wild mint multiplies mosses mollify stone & stilt-legged striders strut brimming brine immense oceans where rollers roar rhyme sandy hands coax up castles & salt seasons skin burbling into bath warm depths where day draws in & diamonds scatter skyward when playful palm slaps surface every child knows sound of one hand |
Jess Woolford is a writer, literary critic and editor whose poetry has been published in the museum of americana, Book of Matches, Text Power Telling Magazine, The Ecological Citizen, Prairie Fire Magazine, Contemporary Verse 2, The Winnipeg Free Press and elsewhere. Her poetry has also been exhibited in #BeHereWinnipeg, a garden of poetry in ice, and in the Poetry Society of Vermont’s Corporeal Poetry show. Raised in Vermont, Woolford now lives and writes on Treaty 1 Territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba.