Christina Rosalie

Posts from the “Poems + Wonder” Category

What my heart wants to say, even though my own words fall short:

Posted on April 15, 2013

                KEEPING QUIET Now we will count to twelve and we will keep still. For once on the face of the earth, let’s not speak in any language; ets stop for one second, and not move our arms so much. It would be an exotic moment without rush, without engins; we would all be together in a sudden strangeness. Fishermen in the cold sea would not harm whales and the man gathering salt would look at his hurt hands. Those who prepare green wars, wars with gas, wars with fire, victories with no survivors, would put on clean clothes and walk about with their brothers in the shade, doing nothing. What I want should not be confused…

How it is:

Posted on November 4, 2012

The Decision There is a moment before a shape hardens, a color sets. Before the fixative heat of kiln. The letter might still be taken from the mailbox. The hand held back by the elbow, the word kept between the larynx pulse and the amplifying drum-skin of the room’s air. The thorax of an ant is not as narrow. The green coat on old copper weighs more. Yet something slips through it– looks around, sets out in the new direction, for other lands. Not into exile, not into hope. Simply changed. As a sandy track-rut changes when called a Silk Road: it cannot be after turned back from. – Jane Hirshfield

Grow your wonder

Posted on October 9, 2012

It’s easy to forget, with all the potential of our complex technologies and science how little we actually really know. It’s easy to grow complacent with google at our finger tips, data always at the ready, answers as cheap and fast as rain. It’s easy to forget about wonder, and how it dwells in us as a vital force. Yet to wonder is to explore the anatomy of creativity. To wonder, is to remember your smallness among the universe of things: galaxies and breath and sudden dying stars, first chances, and last encounters; and to take note of the minutia that matters–an individual flick of the wrist; the subtlety of gesture, the complexity of synapses, the nuances of code, or laughter, or pronunciation. And…

The truth and the stories…

Posted on August 27, 2012

“I believe in everything not yet said.” – Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours Hello dear ones, Oh it’s been so long, I hardly know how to begin. The stories I’ve been living though–oh, they are good ones. Some to tell, some to tuck away into the secret sheaves of story in my mind. * * * I can’t believe it: that my book will be in book stores in a matter of days, and already it’s in Amazon. * * * The truth is: I don’t really have my stuff together at all about this whole book launch thing. It’s a wild adventure of living into the moment, and to be honest, there are many days (most, actually) where it feels…