Sometimes Sara feels like an orphan, imagines herself raised by Nuns. Her dead mother never did like Sara's floppy hats, long hair, calf-length skirts stitched with roses. She wanted Sara's hair permed, nails colored a proper pale pink. Her older relatives used to say Sara needed to find God, that she surely would go straight to hell one day. Sara figures God knows exactly where he is and doesn't need Sara to find him. Sometimes, though, she wishes she still belonged somewhere. She wishes she could see her mother again, sit at their old kitchen table, feet dangling, munching on fried chicken and crowder peas. She misses the family stories, her father in the upstairs bath, shaving, and the lighting bugs morse-coding each other through darkening pines out back.
About the Author
The poetry of Pris Campbell has appeared in such journals as Chiron Review, Main Street Rag, Oranges & Sardines, Wild Goose Review, The Dead Mule, The Cliffs: Soundings, and numerous others. She has been featured poet in Empowerment4Women, In the Fray, and From East to West. She has published two poetry books, Abrasions (Rank Stranger Press) and Sea Trails, a full length book of poems, log notes, charts, and photos based on her sailing trip in 1977 on a 22-foot sailboat down the East coast (Lummox Press, released fall of 2009), as well as two chapbooks, Interchangeable Goddesses (with Tammy Trendle, published by Rose of Sharon Press) and Hesitant Commitments, which is part of Lummox Press's Little Red Book Series. Three nominations for a Pushcart Prize (2008 and 2009) have come her way. After living all over the country, including Hawaii, the Greater West Palm Beach, FL is now her home.
My main focus in art is color, design and composition. I have a true passion for color as the art subject itself - how colors fit together, how they communicate with each other within the design, how certain colors combined with one another evoke a certain feeling - this is paramount in my work. I am a social worker, artist and poet living in Austin, TX. Read More...