Tee and Creative Community - Part 5 - Holiday for Poets

excerpt from “Holiday for Poets” by Bethroot Gwynn

This poem is from my chapbook Under the Heart-Stone: Poems from a Lesbian Love Spell. Tee especially loved this poem, and she anthologized it in The Poetry of Sex  (1992).  I open the chapbook with a quote from Tee: “Art is long; relationships are short.”

Holiday for Poets

Thick with the love we have just made

I read your words to me

your poem thick with the love we were longing to make

And I am washed

by the sudden torrent

of yet another power between us

The power of your words on paper

leaves me breathless

like the power of your tongue on  my body

your eloquent tongue

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Bethroot Gwynn has been living at Fly Away Home women's land for over 30 years: writing, growing food, making theater and ritual.  She has been part of Writers' Group since 1984 and an editor for the We'Moon datebook since 1996.

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from

Tee Corinne and Creative Community

A Reading by The Southern Oregon

Women’s Writers’ Group

University of Oregon  Knight Library

December 9, 2008

as part of

Woman Love: The Life, Art, and Legacy of Tee Corinne

an exhibit September 29 to December 31, 2008

Edited by Helen Laurence

This book will soon be available in a 2^nd  edition. If you are interested in purchasing a copy for $7, please  leave a message with the editor (look to the left in side column).  Be sure to leave contact information so we can reach you.