owed to shirley chisholm (live)
Evie Shockley reading “owed to shirley chisholm” live at Bowdoin College, February 21, 2008.
Evie Shockley
being in the perfection of a jersey city july (live)
Evie Shockley reading “being in the perfection of a jersey city july” live at Bowdoin College, February 21, 2008.
her table mountain (live)
Evie Shockley reading “her table mountain” live at Bowdoin College, February 21, 2008.
duck, duck, redux (live)
Evie Shockley reading “duck, duck, redux” live at Bowdoin College, February 21, 2008.
you must walk this lonesome (live)
Evie Shockley reading “you must walk this lonesome” live at Bowdoin College, February 21, 2008.
lifeline
wedged in the top branches, rain still sighing to earth as a dissolute sky dissolves, a mozambican woman turns mother, her water breaking loose to pool with the flood licking the trunk below. a country-sized puddle calls forth the child whose name, the mother vowed, would not be drowned, no matter how high she had […]
london bridge
— july 9, 2002 deep river my home is over jordan entering the cathedral i hear these (re)moving words echoing off the tear-stained glass windows people from a hundred nations wet with london rain drip from their hair and umbrellas pooling into puddles the spit of fifty foreign tongues visa’d by christ the choir mouths […]
notes for the early journey
somewhere along the way you will need to lean over a bluff’s edge drop your shoes and keep moving use the feel of greening grass under your feet as a guide if a rainbow confuses you which end go the third way on the mountain you’ll remember climb on up to where the aspens tremble […]