What is poetry?
          Yours or mine?

Question Michelle Tennison,  Answer Eve Luckring (2017)

 

What lives in sincerity?
          apples:
          one to eat
          one to stone
          you with

 

What is remembering?
          Wanting to trust the shape a wave makes

 

What is stirring in my gut?
          (When) connecting the dots makes a circle

 

Questions Eve Luckring,  Answers Michelle Tennison (2017)

 

I have long been a fan of — and been inspired by — the work of Los Angeles artist and poet Eve Luckring. One of the gifts of haiku is that it allows us to recognize a kindred spirit, even across a continent. This is how I felt about Eve even before we connected recently through playing the Question and Answer Game.  I felt I could trust her with some difficult questions, and I was right. I hope I was able to answer a few for her as well.

 

 

Is God happy?
          The salt in seaweed

 

How will the world end?
          A bat released from a bubbling spring

 

Questions Michelle Tennison,  Answers Eve Luckring (2017)

 

What reveals disguise?
          When all the walls disappear

 

What do you call into your heart upon awakening?
          Like rain on sugar

 

What is forgiveness?
          A silence that rests inside fire

 

Questions Eve Luckring,  Answers Michelle Tennison (2017)

 

Thank you, Eve, for being you. It was wonderful, I would even say  Marvelous, “meeting” you this way.