Lisha Adela García, a revolutionary writer

Lisha Adela García has an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and currently resides in Texas with her beloved four-legged children. Her books are: This Stone Will Speak, A Rope of Luna and Blood Rivers. She is widely published in various journals and been nominated for a Pushcart. She was the recipient of the San Antonio Tri-Centennial Poetry Prize.

Lisha leads the Wyrdd Writers, a writing group based in San Antonio and has given classes and workshops for various groups, colleges and universities. Lisha is a Certified Poetic Medicine Practitioner and the Poetry Editor for Voices de la Luna literary magazine which has the tagline, "Writing is healing. Art promotes quality of life." Learn more about her practice on her website. Also find her on LinkedIn. 

Blood Rivers, 2009; A Rope of Luna, 2018, Lisha Adela García

Windward Review are pleased to publish three poems from Lisha Adela García in Vol. 22: Revolution. We also published a collaboratively written renga by her and E.D. Watson. Windward Review Vol. 22: Revolution is available to read online. Here is one of Lisha's poems entitled "Revolution With a Pen". 

Revolution With a Pen

For Etain Scott 

 
your hand is a mirror,   
your fist a brick   
each finger a Calla Lilly    
typing existence code on a keyboard.  
 
What if you were 
a salamander 
changing color to suit the scene, 
your eyes wild with sunlight 
a constellation of colors, 
a different reality each day? 
 
What if your grandmother’s words 
were tucked in between your vertebrae 
and your song 
connected to the bell  
in front of your voice 
and it could howl so loudly 
it would scare the hollow wind  
of your tomorrows  
away from your lungs.  
 
In your house, there is a chest  
of drawers in every room. 
Your mother called them insurance. 
Covered by underwear and blankets 
are all the answers she forgot 
to mention while alive. 
You pull out the magic 
from the crone drawer 
paint a Frida mural on your bedroom wall 
or write an opus on the wonder of spiders. 
 
It takes years to figure out that a truck  
is a girl’s best friend. 
Just thrown the vermin away 
load the suitcases in the back 
and take off with the writer coyotes.  
 
What if it was ice cold in June in Texas 
and kindness came to sit on your stoop, freezing? 
Would you let it in to enjoy your fire? 
Or, would you sit in a rocking chair 
thinking on the what if’s 
licking and licking those un-kissed lips.  

This Stone Will Speak, 2007, Lisha Adela García