Riding the Escalator and Terra Affirmative Quotes

“from the Prize winning poem - UNBORN in the book Terra Affirmative.

"Under the surface / her body is curled, / seed of the one race, / shell of the world. // She is thw waterfall, / she is the womb, / she is the bubble, /she is the tomb. // Her hair flows upward, / blood red of the birth. / Her arms are folded / deep into the earth. // She is the fern, / she is the bark, / she is the lantern, / she is the dark. // Her eyes burn the flame / of the old and the young. / Her breath is the name / of each branch of each lung. // She is the ingredient. / She is the blend. / She is the beginning. / She is the end.”
― Jay Woodman, Riding the Escalator and Terra Affirmative

“In the forestlichen writhes and assembles itself into signs to light my path through the deep dark north shadow; and I emerge at last onto a hillside strewn with logogrammatic stones, and scramble away from spruce tops." in the poem "Beyond the Beacon" from Terra Affirmative.”
― Jay Woodman, Riding the Escalator and Terra Affirmative

“Inside my head / or in a distant / Galaxy / Soft I hear it / Calling me." from the song "In the Blackness" in the poetry collection "Terra Affirmative".”
― Jay Woodman, Riding the Escalator and Terra Affirmative

“I am permitted to travel in the corridor between sky and heather" from the poem "Beyond the Beacon" in TerraAffirmative”
― Jay Woodman, Riding the Escalator and Terra Affirmative

“Green and living jewels drip into my eyes" from the poem "All Green and Living Things" in the book "Terra Affirmative”
― Jay Woodman, Riding the Escalator and Terra Affirmative

“like sunlight under their skins, they want to be loved" from the poem STAY in RidingTheEscalator”
― Jay Woodman, Riding the Escalator and Terra Affirmative

“just a little bit longer, sing: like rain, like sand, like wind in the night, prickling" from the poem - STAY from the book "Riding the Escalator”
― Jay Woodman, Riding the Escalator and Terra Affirmative

“All in tune with love and the slow world moving" from the poem - STAY from the book - RidingTheEscalator”
― Jay Woodman, Riding the Escalator and Terra Affirmative

“They come here wanting to be loved, and the boys on the stage receive them" from the poem - STAY in the Book - RidingTheEscalator”
― Jay Woodman, Riding the Escalator and Terra Affirmative