Mey (Melissa Dey) Hasbrook is an interdisciplinary artist whose first love is poetry. She envisions and carries out community-arts collaborations in Michigan communities of Lansing and Kalamazoo, and most recently Peru. Her programs and select poems are shared on her web site . . .
Mey Hasbrook's 2018 project: Naming our grandmothers
Mey's SwampFire 2012 poem, inspired by conversation with fellow artists:
i want to dance with you
her words cut free
our temporary link
she resurrected
a cousin lost young
to cancer
wielding his memory
a shield
from her fears
from my words
of loss
memorializing trees
soon to die
and those already
felled
i want to dance
she formed
a sword
to ward off pain
and the uneasy
peace
built by a drum
as i beat
skin
and she tied
loose ribbons
around the may pole
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