The Fertile Source

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The Fertile Source published photos, artwork, literary essays, poems, fiction, photos and artwork on fertility-related themes. Those themes further include infertility, abortion, miscarriage, and adoption as well as childbirth, pregnancy, birth…

Photo Poem Montages

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In seeming counter-intuition to the usual process of listening to poetry and allowing each reader to supply his or her own internal imagery, I've been experiementing with making photo poem montages set to music. I've been blessed to work closely…

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blue and white glass with bubbles Robyn Beattie photo

She Dressed in a Hurry (for Lady Diana)

She dressed in a hurry  or perhaps never wore a slip. The photo the press loved: a girl in a skirt, distance between her thighs backlit by the sun, a circle of children in her care birthed by other mothers. The obvious didn’t escape…

Nefertiti on the Astral

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Nefertiti on the Astral I did what I came to do. Dead, I have the luxury to know: the locus of power is not the body, though how lovely: my daughter’s daughter’s etc., daughter, sitting beside the Nile, sun falling on the brown…

Amelia

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Blood-wing blackbird, deserting again the nest of spice, to burn, in the circle of my domain: the open miles of sky, my body—and edges of a stranger’s forged wings--meeting at the cusp of dawn, valves sweetening....   Amelia,…