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Sisters of the Page has been on the web since 2007. We have featured the works of Misti Rainwater-Lites, MK Chavez, Judy Brekke and Craig Sernotti.

SOTP is a place where we promote female writers, artists, and photographers. This is our goal and our emphasis however, from time to time, we will open the page to everyone in order to showcase some of their works.

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Sunday, March 23, 2008

70's Photograph and an untitled work by M.K. Chavez

Two By M.K. Chavez

The 70's Photograph

My mother smiles and wears polite

pale pink lingerie

with matching slippers.

My pop has gotten her

a decent string of pretend pearls.

The picture has faded now

and the iridescent paint

has chipped off

of the imitation necklace.

It sits in a jewelry box, next

to her lipstick and mascara,

right beneath the mirror

that she doesn't look into

much anymore.

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Untitled

People stay and clouds

merge into the sharpness of blue.

Our eyes meet across the table

keep secrets, the taste

of honeydew melon, green

and red chiles light lips on fire

and after a while the burning disappears

but not completely.

Revolutionaries with brown skin

brown eyes, wicked tongues. Women

who write poetry

and bring their little dogs

to poetry readings.

Salty kisses, dust sets on familiar roads.

Skin absorbs ink, people

become what they are not. Virgins

have children, words

feed the famished. Red glass

in the sunlight. The taste

of wine in your mouth

watermelon juice drips down

on breasts and pink ribbons.

Stargazer lilies bloom

at night. Tongues

tangle together. The chase

and the capture. The sound

of my camera. A stolen moment.

History on city walls, truth.

Step carefully over the sharpness

of rocks on the way to the river.

The steady ping of raindrops. Stillness

repetition and motion. Shiny tin

art, figurines of death

mean life. Sizzling oil

on a cast iron pan, and the way

that my mother fought back.

Words hide meaning.

Hot, spicy chocolate

the way that my skin takes in the sun.

Cinnamon sticks and cinnabar, red

and yellow leaves float

through the air. Fingertips

travel the curves of my body, the texture

of charcoals and pastels

mark an empty canvas, create

something out of nothing.

Struggle and come up for air.

MK Chavez writes about the beauty that can be found in ugliness, the mystery of feeling bad about feeling good, little birds, and big consequences. She is curator of Acker's Dangerous Daughters, a San Francisco reading series of Cherry Bleeds Literary Journal. Her work has been published online and in print. "Virgin Eyes" a chapbook of poetry is available through Zeitgeist Press, a second chapbook, "Visitation" is being published by Kendra Special Editions and is due to be released in March 2008. Other recent and upcoming publications include Zygote In My Coffee, Outsider Writer, Poesy, Snow Monkey, and she recently received Honorable Mention in the Beat Museum Poetry contest. You can find out more about her poetry at www.littlebrownsparrow.com

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