The Sun is in My Mouth

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A collection of words by Arna Baartz.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The poetry of Arna Baartz can only be described by one word: open.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>She says in the beginning I rarely punctuate I cannot predict your flow take my words make them your own without a period of course. Like any other reader I have my favorite poems and phrases and you will have yours. For example in The Brilliant Lit she writes:</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>licking its way out of me</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>colouring the sky ambushing my skin stroking</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Some of her work is visually laid out creating impact. Quite nice; quite powerful.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Some of her poems have a punchline indicating the cosmic joke at which I laughed heartily. Others made me stop and think consider her words not for what she was saying to herself but what the words were saying to me. This is the beauty of her work!</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Art Noble author of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Sacred Female ~ A Sonata of Sexual Love and Spirituality </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>and</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Forbidden: The Alchemy of Erotic Love</em></p><p></p>