The Sister from Below
When the Muse gets Her Way

 The Muse of Lament and Dissent  III Weeping Madonna (with credit to Sara Spaulding Phillips) Introduction   An Agony of Witness and Empathy...

The Sister from Below is delighted to announce the publication of   Death and His Lorca  The Muse of Duende   I’m wandering in a shadowy par...

The Muse of Gathering  Beyond the open window the edges of the leaves, a river of earth and sky spinning like Sufi women surrou...

A Letter to my Grandmother Emma Hoffman as a young woman I wish I could see those fabled houses from before I was born the home o...

Oh freedom, oh freedom, oh freedom over me And before I'd be a slave I'll be buried in my grave And go home to my Lord and be f...