Williams & Hannah – May 2022
Lela Hannah and Beth Schabb Williams traded art and words. Beth shared this image, titled “Surveillance,” with Lela:

In response, Lela wrote this poem:
Brain Screech in B#
A water-bending horse
with infinite names,
Luz, Shadow,
Blazer, Ash,
teaches me to finetune the firestorm in my veins
rebirthed
river legs snaking
into my ears
and out of
my
gaping mouth
where I tried to hoard time, now
I flick decades off my tongue,
sea piercing my lungs,
cilia dancing,
baritones blooming in my irises,
no longer
in hibernation.
I could be a shark
but I choose to float
on my back, drink the rip currents,
swallow the moon,
bury mania in the trenches
set the sea ablaze,
slumber under the ash.
* * * * * *
Lela shared this poem with Beth:
A Restless Person Attempts Meditation
Deep
thickets of crickets in
the part of my brain where serotonin should be,
breath
is sucked in when my chest rises or is it when it falls or does it
house a beehive –
in
the event of an emergency, my mouth is the nearest exit.
Don’t
you want to use this quiet time to figure out
why we are all doomed and
overthink
everything?
Don’t
forget to eat the honey
from my heart and
breathe.
In response, Beth made this image, titled “Be”:
