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Nancy Fletcher Cassell
(1)Nothingness (9/11)
“Not everything assumes a name. Some things lead beyond words.”
—Alexander SolzhenitsynThe forest sings aloud in winter,
a host to sleep of the unnamed beautiful.
Musk and leaf compact under foot,
black with moist ages and ages of eyes.I am chilled clean,
to the slick bone of the present.
A laugh turns to scent crush on my sleeve.
Weariness runs down inside the crayon of my flesh.Watch us, as what is ours is taken.
Our moans are ravenous. They flail the stars.
Shadows uncelebrated erupt.
We rob one to one.
Our hearts unscrewed peer from loot-smeared eyes.The joy of ignorance burns each word.
They tumble out and away from our lips,
into the knowledge of the world singing:
I want to hear and not take to heart the song.— Nancy Fletcher Cassell, originally published in Poems and Drawings on Peace and Justice, 2005.
Reprinted by permission of the author.Nancy Fletcher Cassell, visual artist and writer, is currently a finalist for the Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize from Water-Stone Review. She has received the Legacies Award from the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning and was a finalist for the Second Annual Next Great Writers Award from the Carnegie. Nancy has also received an Honorable Mention for the The Kentucky Women Writers Conference’s Betty Gabehart Award.
Her poems and drawings were published in Poems and Drawings on Peace and Justice by Greater Cincinnati Artists. Her visual work has received fellowships from The Kentucky Arts Council (Al Smith Fellowships), The Kentucky Foundation for Women and The Southern Arts Federation/NEA. Her artwork has been featured in Wind Magazine, The Artist’s Magazine and New American Paintings. Nancy has been awarded residencies at The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Yaddo.
She was selected as a featured artist from the state of Kentucky for The Southern Arts Federation website.
Nancy is currently represented by the Ann Tower Gallery in Lexington.
Learn more about Nancy at her individual website is www.nancyfletchercassell.com .
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One Response to “Nancy Fletcher Cassell”
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Hi Sherry, I wanted to let you know I am reading these Kentucky poets/poems. I’ve been busy and just haven’t commented much. I really like this one. Helen
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