My guest today is friend and fellow British Columbia poet, SheLa E. Nefertiti Morrison. It's an honour for me to be able to share her work with you along with the art (above) of Kimberly Blackstock, also from B.C., who does wonderful, often monumental, work around the themes of dots, linear, journey and floral. Check out her Instagram here. A Sea Anemone Moment At my muddy feet dormant sea anemone look like unused condoms, still coiled or khaki-green sphincters, that await the sea’s semidiurnal enema. When touched, they pucker and squirt to execrate their version of salty ire from their gelatinous magenta centres at my finger, which is not potential prey then go back to what we call rest, until the tide slides in and invites Hexacorallia tentacles to open so they can catch more than a moment of vexation from a land-bound giantess me, speck on the horizon. (first published in AESTHETICA Yearbook 2010, U.K.)
SheLa E. Nefertiti Morrison’s poems have been shortlisted twice for DESCANT/Winston Collins Best Canadian Poem. She is currently shopping around a poetry collection and two novels. She is inspired by her pet rats (bubs), friendship, natural science, “the sensualities”, world cuisine, fine art, environmentalism - for a start. Living with head injury/A.D.D. and severe chronic pain, she relates to the Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) quote: “I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which have actually happened.”
Nice, I like her point of view.