Hemispheric Pressures. (Original poetry)

We are raised to perceive the world in dualisms: east/west, south/north, female/male, etc. Yet within the human psyche there is a need for oneness. Language, metaphor and myth can bring together what appear to be opposites. The model for this comes from the human brain itself: it functions optimally when and because its two hemispheres are interconnected. In this collection of twenty-eight poems, I've tried to re-form the world from what it is into what it might be. The process begins in Section One, "Ash Smears My Hair," with trying to find a voice through which to speak. Section Two, "Through My Own Eyes, See," defines the struggle to achieve the autonomy from which to speak authentically. Finally, Section Three, "The Moon Climbs A Tree," attempts to speak the personal into the political, the private into the public sphere.