no soul matador

 

 

i’m going to

keep my music light

today

 

no soul matador

trying to run me

out of my

sacred places

 

just a gentle

coaxing

 

of nakai’s flute

and the turquoise arizona

sky

 

where birds and scars

belong to the

wind

 

where i sit

and wait for

myself

 

to begin

again

 

 

 

© 2025 jennifer wagner

 

 

“i...sit...and wait for myself” — Georgia O’Keeffe, from Roxana Robinson's biography of the artist

 

a poem for international women’s day