Joyce Wakefield Canvas Test Point 1 "If we do not learn from this, then from what shall we learn?" Vincent Van Gogh The brain has teeth like a heart never could and it watches the heart laying in its own pool of blood with a buzz of ego. There is a faint pulse in the brain the heart unclenches and is still. Test Point 2 "The time for making dark studies is short." Vincent Van Gogh I have replaced the sheets on my bed now that the body is gone. Where is my ego now - lost in one of those crooked alleyways in my brain. Test Point 3 "So there is in every moment something that moves us intensely."  Vincent Van Gogh It was a pretty truth hewn in a moment of madness, unraveling words that will not silence me again. Giving birth to a prayer will not bring one ear back but it will hang stars in the sky like you have never seen. round I, poem 9, 21 September 2005

Joyce Wakefield Has had both poetry and short stories published in several online as well as print journals.  She is a past member of  the Oklahoma Writer's Federation, the Individual Artists of Oklahoma, and a new resident to the state of California.  She is currently establishing her freelance writing business there. email:  Joyce Wakefield