Shannon Crossman
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How to Build a Home Where Your Heart Lives

How to Build a Home Where Your Heart Lives

Shannon Crossman November 23, 2016 Poetry Leave a Comment

Part One Home Building: Collect small bits of string twigs, and burrs, the hairs from a wild cat’s tail, a few needles of pine. String tiny beads of light along the spines of dandelions. Pause …

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BelongingHomeSelf Love
Dig Up Your Shadow

Dig Up Your Shadow From The Place Where You Last Buried Her

Shannon Crossman November 23, 2016 Awakening Woman, Poetry Leave a Comment

You forgot the ocean that pounds through your blood. Fell asleep to the powerful creator inside. Snap out of it, Sister. Wake up hard and soon, before the weedy grasses grow over your face tacking …

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Awakening WomanF this! SeriesHow to HealRiseSelf LoveShadow
My Feet Whisper of a Violent Discontent with Concrete

My Feet Whisper of a Violent Discontent with Concrete

Shannon Crossman August 20, 2013 Poetry

My feet ache for sand. Whisper of a violent discontent with concrete. Draw me nearer to soft yielding places. Responsive to the depression of steps. An organic notation of I was here, carved by bare …

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NatureSelf Love
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