Jack Straw Videos! Readings!
August 24, 2023
Slow Now
with Clear Skies
There’s something going on here. She’s done explaining. Done justifying. Done worrying well. She’s wailing. Grieving. Believing. Bringing her healing powers. Her nurturing. Her whole wise woman self. Looking unflinchingly at this life. After plagues and pandemics. After war. After global ecological ruin. After injustices. After loss after loss. There’s a surge of possibilities: Survival. Gratitude. Incantations. Touch. And most of all—hope. —John Burgess, author of Punk Poems
In post-pandemic America, this is the book I needed to read. Weaver, an herbalist, knows we and the earth can heal together. Find channels that soothe. …Send anxiety into the earth. She uses images from her own life and the viruses that plague our world to witness suffering. And to acknowledge that none of us is the same after the Covid years. Her poetry resonates: It’s time/for massive change…/ Our planet, slow now with clear skies.
—Joanne M. Clarkson, author of Hospice House
Artwork By Clare Johnson, what we make it, (detail), © 2021, watercolor on fine art print of dip pen & India ink drawing, 8.5 x 4.75 inches. From series made for public art, commissioned by City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture
To see more of Clare's work, please visit www.clareJohnson.com
Cover design: Tonya Namura
