Pris Campbell




Pris Campbell co-created one of the first nude male calendar in her pre-communal days in Boston and she sailed from Boston to Florida over a six month time period in a 22 foot sailboat, aptly named, Little Adventure, in the late seventies. She was a Clinical Psychologist before being sidelined by CFIDS in 1990. Her adventures continue now by way of her poetry, which has been been published or accepted for publication in such journals as MiPo Publications (print and digital), Thunder Sandwich, Blackmail Press, Peshekee River Poetry, Limestone Circle (print), Niederngasse,  Erosha,  Dufus, Mind Fire,  Dakota House, Verse Libre Woman of the Web Anthology. Her haiga/haiku have appeared in several journals, including Simply Haiku. Haiga Online and Short Stuff. Her chapbook, Abrasions, can be ordered from Rank Stranger Press. She now lives in the greater West Palm Beach, Florida with her husband, one crazy dog and one stray, (now) fixed cat who rode out Hurricane Wilma in her house with four newborn kittens. Visit her website and her blog.
 

HARD CALL

These decisions that come
hard as a whore's breath,
fast as a fall face-down
onto an unforgiving walkway.
My never born son's curled fetal
body lies hammocked in multiples
in the Mammatus clouds hanging,
like guilt, over my cowering rooftop.
They remind me that one slide-trombone
moment can mean either a uterus
sucked dry as an old sock or
a newborn's long screaming ride
down to a mother's quiet lullaby
and bluebells, yet to be picked.
 

© Pris Campbell 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

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