Add Your Blog | | Signup
Raven's Wing Poetry · 5d ago

Pavements

Every morning, our feet take stretches of road like pages, like pavements that have not yet born our words, our miles, our smiles, our tears. We reach up, we reach out, we bring wheels to asphalt hoping that the next day is not split in two by a fissure crack – or two, or twenty [...]
0 Vote Up · Share
Raven's Wing Poetry · 5d ago

My Poem “Homecoming” Republished by the Jim Morrison Project

My poem, “Homecoming” was republished by the Jim Morrison Project today. The website is a tribute to the late Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors and published articles, artwork, and (now) poetry. “Homecoming” was written last year during NaPoWriMo 2011. It was an attempt to get into Morrison’s h
0 Vote Up · Share
Raven's Wing Poetry · 1W ago

My Poem “Glass and Concrete” Published on Autism and Empathy

My poem, “Glass and Concrete” was republished over at the Autism and Empathy website. Autism and Empathy seeks “to undo the myths about autism and empathy that have stigmatized autistic people for so long”. The site features prose and poetry by autistics, family members, parents, and professionals.
0 Vote Up · Share
Raven's Wing Poetry · 1M ago

Glass and Concrete (For World Autism Awareness Day, 2012)

I place my hands on the glass wall, pushing against one more boundary between me and the world, as if my bare hands could make the wall more solid, less breakable: and when I lift them up, I see the remains of one language I speak, an entire matrix of lines, swirls, and whorls dictated [...]
0 Vote Up · Share
Raven's Wing Poetry · 1M ago

Life With Autism: CNN Invitation to Share Your Autism Stories

Reblogged from Woman With Asperger's: Hello folks! Here’s an opportunity to share your story about autism and Asperger Syndrome. CNN is inviting people to tell their stories about autism for World Autism Awareness Day on April 2 as part of their CNN iReport series. If you wish to participate, you’ll
0 Vote Up · Share
Raven's Wing Poetry · 1M ago

Altered Prisms Art Show @ CCAA Museum of Art, August - September 2012

Reblogged from Woman With Asperger's: The Altered Prisms Art Show, an exhibit featuring works by artists on the autism spectrum, will be hosted at the CCAA Museum of Art from August 10 through September 30, 2012. This exhibit will be accepting submissions by artists until May 1, 2012. Submission Gui
0 Vote Up · Share
Raven's Wing Poetry · 1M ago

My Art Piece, “Escape” in April and May Art of Autism Shows

One of my digital art pieces, “Escape”, will be displayed as part of the Art of Autism exhibits in April and May. “Escape” is based on my poem, “Letter to My Father”, and is a digital art print on photo paper. “Letter to My Father” appears in the 2012 edition of The Art of Autism, [...]
1 Vote Up · Share
Raven's Wing Poetry · 1M ago

Holes

(Lakshmi and Persephone, to Sita) (Lakshmi) I don’t want to ask you about how wide or how large the hole grew to – I’d rather not remind you it’s even there at all. When the white rabbit disappeared down into the abyss, to the other side, pocket watch in hand, a dandy’s waistcoat girt about [...]
0 Vote Up · Share
Raven's Wing Poetry · 2M ago

Signs

Consider this: a white vase of red roses, sitting stately upon a table, greeting the dawn, casting up its song of fragrance. One day, a careless wind, an earthquake, or an errant cat’s paw sends the vase tumbling: prisoners of a reckless plummet to the ground, the roses cannot stop their fall – and
0 Vote Up · Share
Raven's Wing Poetry · 2M ago

Upcoming Art of Autism Art Shows

The Art of Autism has three upcoming shows this spring. Information is courtesy of Debra Hosseini, editor of The Art of Autism. NEWSFLASH! The 2012 edition is coming March 21, 2012 and includes 77 artists and poets on the spectrum (including me — my poem, “Letter to My Father”, is in the book)! Apri
0 Vote Up · Share
More Stories