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 […]
Stella Reed
Stella Reed: Poem with blue nuance
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 […]
Stella Reed: I won’t speak to you like I spoke before
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 […]
Stella Reed: I once believed my body
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 […]