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