Anthology: Katie Ford Hall

This one is mine!  It is part of a writing project that I just completed a writing project in my quest for certification through the Feminist Leadership Academy.  My project covers the 15 months I spent in breast cancer treatment, how it transformed me, how I transformed it and the ways both regular writing and WWfaC helped me to make meaning out of it all.  I used my semester in the Tuesday morning class to write and edit what became a large writing project.  I worked extensively with my very capable and supportive small group.

An excerpt of one of my poems is below.  I also read the poem in our Tuesday Morning Class public readaround on Nov. 17.  Please click the link for the entire poem.  Thank you for reading it!!

Tissue Paper Ghosts

It was winter before I noticed the trees,

white bark twisting, tangling, hanging over

the river like a dare.  Brown knobby scars

face this crumbling road, amputated witnesses

to a battle lost to men protecting the lines of power.

>>read entire poem here>>