Because we must lose you
Julia Balén
To the full morning moon
incandescent over snowy peaks
draped in sheer clouds
pinked by sun’s
rise
We rise
to another day without you
and there is everything to do
and nothing to do
about the loss
except marvel at a morning moon
vanishing in dawn’s light
To the full morning moon
incandescent over snowy peaks
draped in sheer clouds
pinked by sun’s
rise
We rise
to another day without you
and there is everything to do
and nothing to do
about the loss
except marvel at a morning moon
vanishing in dawn’s light
About the author
Associate Professor and Faculty Director of the Center for Multicultural Engagement at California State University Channel Islands, Julia Balén has a Ph.D. in Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies with a focus on issues of embodiment and power relations and has published on feminist, lesbian, and queer theory and practice in an anti-racist/classist context. Some representative publications include: “Erotics, Agency, and Social Movement: Communities of Sexuality and Musicality in LGBT Choruses” in The Queer Community: Continuing the Struggle for Social Justice, ed. Richard G. Johnson III, (San Diego, CA: Birkdale Publishers, 2009) and “Practicing What We Teach” in Women’s Studies for the Future: Foundations, Interrogations, Politics, ed. Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Agatha Beins (Rutgers University Press, 2005).
For an updated list of works published in TRIVIA, please see this author's contributor page.
For an updated list of works published in TRIVIA, please see this author's contributor page.