Nova Cynthia Arts: blond gIRL bIRDs The Poem inspired by an Alfred Ei...

Nova Cynthia Arts: blond gIRL bIRDs The Poem inspired by an Alfred Ei...: " Written by and First performed by Nova Cynthia Barker in the Summer of 2003 at the Palace of the Governor's in Santa Fe, New Mexico perfor..."

blond gIRL bIRDs The Poem inspired by an Alfred Eisenstaedt Photograph

 Written by and First performed by Nova Cynthia Barker
in the Summer of 2003
 at the Palace of the Governor's in Santa Fe, New Mexico
performed with and by invitation of Gary Mex Glazner.

Alfred Eisenstaedt
Form The Assignment Essay:
Suburban: Garden City, New York, 1942
Photograph: Two Young Girls Jumping Rope



blond gIRL bIRDs


jUMP sISTERS jUMP!

Wings of white frocks
exposing limber knees,
bent in Freedom.
We are Kites of Power;
Our blond hair flying up and out!

jUMP sISTERS jUMP!

The shadows of our Bodies
eclipse this concrete earth
beneath us:
airborne --gIRL bIRDS
we are free of G-r-a-ViTy.

Our Ropes an Outlining of Physics:
Aligning, guiding, Enabling,
oUR aSSENT

jUMP sISTERS jUMP!

Tapping-Black-Hooves
freed of heavy sounds...
Whoosh!!!!
gIRL bIRDs
Delight
Harmony
Unity
Levity
oUR tWIN Na-mes...

We two are sparrows;
free from the nest, for this brief moment...

c Nova Cynthia Barker  03