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Stella Reed

Stella Reed

September 7, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

Stella Reed (she/her) lives in Ogha Po’oge (White Shell Water Place) also known as Santa Fe, NM, unceded Tewa land. She is the co-author with Tina Carlson and Katherine DiBella Seluja, of We Are Meant to Carry Water, 2019, from 3: A Taos Press, an AZ-NM Book Award winner.  Stella’s chapbook, Myth from the field where the fox runs with its tail on fire, was the winner […]

Filed Under: Contributors 102, Issue 102 Tagged With: Stella Reed

Stella Reed: Poem with blue nuance

September 7, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

When she calls, tell her to gather her clothes. Put the blankets  in a paper bag.   Don’t touch anything  of stonewashed blue. Don’t pluck leaves from her hair  or tug at threads.  The sleeve may fall.   Don’t brush soil from her shoulder  Don’t give her a drink of water just yet it could […]

Filed Under: Issue 102, Poetry, Poetry 102 Tagged With: Stella Reed

Stella Reed: I won’t speak to you like I spoke before

September 7, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

In lieu of language I give you my hands to make this poem urgent.  Beware, I sign. Stay alive.    Here there is no night  only the adjacent dark,  the proximity of our breath.    Despite what I said,  I have made mistakes.  I chose the wrong book from the ruins    its spine turned […]

Filed Under: Issue 102, Poetry, Poetry 102 Tagged With: Stella Reed

Stella Reed: I once believed my body

September 7, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

was a descendant of trees  my foremothers the branches  that bore my blossoming weight my forefathers birds that scattered seed    where water was a dream  where they rowed with my breath in their mouth    on the shore a stag  one antler branching the sky  the absence of the other  a memory.    My […]

Filed Under: Issue 102, Poetry, Poetry 102 Tagged With: Stella Reed

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