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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 is founder and Editor in Chief of Wild River Review. She 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. She is the author of a bi-lingual book of poems, Cave of the Bear, translated into Greek by Lili Bita; and a novel, Ugly Cookies, co-written with Fran Metzman. Her travel memoir, Anatolian Days and Nights, based on ten years of travel through Turkey, co-written with Angie Brenner will be published in early 2012 by Wild River Books. You can visit the book'x website at: Anatolian Days and Nights.com. Or order Anatolian Days & Nights by clicking here: ADN. Her essay - Turkish American Food - will appear in the 2nd edition of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America. 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. She is currently working with Harriet Mayor Fulbright, widow of Senator J. William Fulbright and President of Harriet Fulbright College, on Mrs. Fulbright's memoir. 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 is on the board of the Princeton Middle East Society , and 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 |
"By the time the wise woman has crossed the bridge the crazy woman has crossed the water."
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Comments
Don't we love the memories of our little children.?
This is so, so sweet.
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