December 21, 2015

ADVENT DAY TWENTY-ONE: WANDA PHIPPS



     Her

      inspired by a film by Spike Jonze

      intuitive HER
      adaptive HER
      helpful HER
      omnipresent HER
      effective HER
      persuasive HER
      perceptive HER
      hilarious HER
      wave HER
      particle HER
      particular HER
      operating HER
      system HER
      systematic HER
      operative HER
      operatic HER
      insistent HER
      logical HER
      compassionate HER
      desperate HER

      HER inside the hardware
      HER inside the mainframe
      HER inside the multiverse
      HER inside your mind space
      HER inside the ones and zeros

      HER without the smartphone
      HER without the cigarettes
      HER without grief
      HER without separation
      HER without the exes

      around HER the skyline
      around HER the ocean
      around HER the electromagnetic field
      around HER the transportation system
      around HER the full philosophy

      above HER the sound of birds
      above HER the open view
      above HER the infinite sweetness 




WANDA PHIPPS is a writer/performer living in NYC. Her books include Field of Wanting: Poems of Desire and Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems. Her poetry has been translated into Ukrainian, Hungarian, Arabic, Galician and Bangla. She has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Theater Translation Fund, and others. As a founding member of Yara Arts Group she has collaborated on numerous theatrical productions presented in Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Siberia, and at La MaMa, E.T.C. in NYC. She’s curated reading series at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church and written about the arts for Time Out New YorkPaper Magazine, and About.com. Check out her website: www.mindhoney.com.

photo credit: Ken Kerbs   

1 comment:

Rebecca said...

Love this. Thank you Wanda, for HER and for HER and HER too.....