My two poems View on the side of the Road and The Doe
have been accepted for the Summer printed issue of
The Avocet, a journal of Nature Poetry--2022.
Thank you, Charles and Vivian for taking these pieces.
Ocean Water
Dasha Kelly Hamilton
The ocean pushes back
Alive and vigorous
The heritage of habitat
Leans against expectation
Muscles its due respect
Without regard
Without warning
Without reorienting the ones
With swimming perspectives
Limitations of consistent temperature
and painted cement walls
The ocean rumbles its sovereignty
Full weight of freedom on my skin.
Dasha Kelly Hamilton is a writer and performance
artist. She is National Rubinger Fellow and currently
Poet Laureate for the city of Milwaukee and the
State of Wisconsen. In 2021, she received an
Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship.