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POETRY - The Bath:Athens, GreeceThe Bath (Athens, Greece)
My daughter sits on the edge of a deep narrow tub and washes my back.
I close my eyes and smile as she says, Now, we'll wash your hair.
I hold it in my hand, a fountain flowing between my legs.
She smoothes shampoo through my hair and says, I want to go back to the island.
Her trousers are rolled above the knees, her white cotton blouse splashed transparent.
And the water– Oh how we wish to live near the blue blue–
Water streams through my hair over forehead, nose, lips and breasts.
Sweet sweet-smelling. And my daughter like the dolphins
who guard the harbor off the island of snow white houses, lifts her head and sings.
Joy Stocke, WRR Editor-in-Chief  Joy E. Stocke, founder and Editor in Chief of Wild River Review, has published fiction, nonfiction and poetry, and has written about and lectured widely on her travels in Greece and Turkey, as well as religion, ancient and modern. Her memoir, Anatolian Days and Nights: A Love Affair with Turkey, Land of Dervishes, Goddesses & Saints, based on more than ten years of travel through Turkey, co-written with Angie Brenner was published in March 2012 by Wild River Books. You can visit the book's website at: Anatolian Days & Nights.com. Or order Anatolian Days & Nights by clicking here: ADN. Her essay "Turkish American Food" appears in the 2nd edition of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (OUP, 2012). She is the author of a bi-lingual book of poems, Cave of the Bear, translated into Greek by Lili Bita based on her travels in Western Crete; and a novel, Ugly Cookies. Currently, she is writing a memoir about a small town on a Coral Reef in Baja Sur, Mexico, where she lives part of the year. An experienced editor, Stocke works with many of the writers who appear in the pages of Wild River Review, as well as clients from around the world. She has interviewed Nobel Prizewinners Orhan Pamuk and Muhammud Yunus, Pulitzer Prizewinner Paul Muldoon, Roshi Joan Halifax, anthropologist and expert on end of life care; Ivonne Baki, President of the Andean Parliament; and Templeton Prizewinner Freeman Dyson among others. In 2006, along with Executive Editor, Kim Nagy, Stocke interviewed scientists and artists including Princeton University President Shirley Tilghman and Dean of Faculty, David P. Dobkin for the documentary Quark Park, chronicling the creation of an award-winning park built on a vacant lot in the heart of Princeton, a park that united art and science and community. She serves on the boards of the Princeton Middle East Society and the Center for Emergent Diplomacy, and is a member of the Turkish Women's International Network. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, with a Bachelor of Science in Broadcast Journalism, she participated in the Lindisfarne Symposium on The Evolution of Consciousness with cultural philosopher, poet and historian, William Irwin Thompson. In 2009, she became a Lindisfarne Fellow. EMAIL: jstocke@wildriverreview.com JOY STOCKE IN THIS EDITION: » View all articles by Joy Stocke |
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Connecting People, Places, and Ideas: Story by Story
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Comments
Gorgeous, photographic, lush.
Don't we love the memories of our little children.?
This is so, so sweet.
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