Fear for a child is very different to the adult and exactly the same the child inhabits another decade, in the past, another life before they knew they were who they become the child wets the bed because she misses her mother who is beautiful, ethereal, slender and absent the smell of her still lingers […]
Midnight, Monday 15th October is the deadline for submitting art/writing/poetry, this is an important, very timely project at a critical stage in history, your voices need to be heard!
Bruised But Not Broken, Whisper and the Roar, Indie Blu(e), and Blood Into Ink are joining forces to publish an anthology about the lived experience of sexual harassment and assault. We believe that it is more important than ever before that more voices speak out and reclaim their strength by owning their survival stories. All contributors, female and male, can submit up to three pieces of creative work- these can include; Poetry, Prose, Essay, Short Fiction, Prose, or original Artwork, but should be limited in length (under 1,000 words) considering that this is an anthology. You will be notified if your work is accepted. Please do not consider nonacceptance as any diminishment of your experience, but as with any publishing venture, we must try to fit the individual pieces together into a strong whole.
Writers and artists will retain the publishing rights to their individual submitted pieces. Indie Blu(e) will retain the rights to the collection We Will Not Be Silenced.
Pieces accepted for the Anthology may be used in whole or in part to promote the Anthology. All writers and artists will be appropriately credited in all promotional materials.
Should the royalties from sales of the Anthology exceed the costs of publishing and promoting the Collection, 70% of the royalties above these costs will be donated to organizations that support survivors of sexual harassment and sexual assault.
Bruised But Not Broken, Whisper and the Roar, Indie Blu(e), and Blood Into Ink are joining forces to publish an anthology about the lived experience of sexual harassment and assault. We believe that it is more important than ever before that more voices speak out and reclaim their strength by owning their survival stories. All contributors, female and male, can submit up to three pieces of creative work- these can include; Poetry, Prose, Essay, Short Fiction, Prose, or original Artwork, but should be limited in length (under 1,000 words) considering that this is an anthology. You will be notified if your work is accepted. Please do not consider nonacceptance as any diminishment of your experience, but as with any publishing venture, we must try to fit the individual pieces together into a strong whole.
All submissions should be sent to bloodintoink2017@gmail.com by midnight, Monday, October 15, 2018.
Please re-blog and get the word out.
Echoes of pierced hearts
Taunting evil deeds
Motherless child from a
Damaged womb
Breathless before God
And his followers
Atonement expires
Heat drenches a soaked soul
A sparrow breaks his wing
Black ash falls from the sky
Voodooed and seanced
A blur, a speck no one sees
Or knows
If you moved from colored bruise beneath silken pour of sleeplessness
Supple backed, dewy salt, two thrust on tiptoe, catching breath
Shards blending, fizzured pulse, ever and ever, tongued capture
Flush against humid glass, hold–pressing fierce crimson, disturbing numinous hour of sewing
Children with boiled seaside sweets, deep in their catkin singing mouths, dream of a dark cast–shrouding
Yet as I quit–the hingeless drug
Your smudged anger envelops, the stray chill of my shoulder
As a bandage will hold us, burned into place.
Until moths pick their way from water-painted cocoon
Feeling their way in inked shiver, milked squid, gesturing tresses
Your long goose neck–bent to catch, last wetting of ground
For rain begins her throbbed drumming, swelling in granite intensity
Tasting cyanide and fruit
In the orange peel of day
Chasing last whisper
Of her quiet running horror.
Collaborative poem by Tre Loadholt & Candice Daquin
Inspiration: Sylvia Plath’s “Ariel” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49001/ariel
Artwork: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/328410997808168523/
Tre Loadholt: https://acorneredgurl.com and https://medium.com/a-cornered-gurl
Candice Daquin: https://thefeatheredsleepcom.wordpress.com/
TheFeatheredSleep 