{"id":6690,"date":"2018-12-24T22:54:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T22:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=6690"},"modified":"2019-08-24T20:42:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T20:42:33","slug":"the-morning-spasm-a-poem-by-christiana-sasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/the-morning-spasm-a-poem-by-christiana-sasa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Morning Spasm. A Poem by Christiana Sasa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nEyes sweat out softness<br \/>\nIn the corner<br \/>\nClouds can\u2019t but break<br \/>\nBut the school bus has arrived<br \/>\nA slip of the fingers<br \/>\nAnd bread spread smeared<br \/>\nAll Over<br \/>\nThe frail beats shudder<br \/>\nIn the core of heart<br \/>\nIn the face of the morning<br \/>\nBreeze sweeping her cheek<br \/>\nWith the fresh essence of after-shave<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nShe turned around<br \/>\nLeaves her spasm<br \/>\nIn the freezer alongside the frozen lasagne<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/the-morning-spasm-a-poem-by-christiana-sasa\/my-pic-spasm\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6691\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/My-Pic-Spasm-180x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/My-Pic-Spasm-180x300.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/My-Pic-Spasm.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Christiana Sasa<\/strong>  loves to write. Through writing she finds a vent for her strangled feelings and emotions. She believes in love, peace and humanity.<br \/>\nHer poems have been, with great pleasure, published on the magazine The Pangolin Review.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Robin Ouzman Hislop is Editor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\">Poetry Life and Times<\/a> his publications include <\/strong> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Babble-Souk-Robin-Ouzman-Hislop\/dp\/1329636953\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1506012222&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=All+the+Babble+of+the+Souk\"><em>All the Babble of the Souk<\/em> <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&amp;field-keywords=Cartoon+Molecules\"><em>Cartoon Molecules<\/em> <\/a>collected poems and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Key-Mist-Guadalupe-Grande\/dp\/1365453006\/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1506012852&amp;sr=1-4&amp;keywords=Key+of+Mist\"><em>Key of Mist<\/em> <\/a><\/strong> <strong>the recently published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/shop\/carmen-crespo\/tesserae\/paperback\/product-23327341.html\"><em>Tesserae<\/em> <\/a>translations from Spanish poets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=673209856\">Guadalupe Grande <\/a><\/strong> <strong>and Carmen Crespo visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aquillrelle.com\/authorrobin.htm\">Aquillrelle.com\/Author Robin Ouzman Hislop <\/a>about author. <\/strong> <strong>See Robin performing his work <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/robin-hislop-reads-at-university-of-leeds-his-poetry-and-translations-video-performance\">Performance (University of Leeds)<\/a> and his latest Collected Poems Volume at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Next-Arrivals-Robin-Ouzman-Hislop\/dp\/1387934333\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1536870079&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=robin+ouzman+hislop\"><em> Next-Arrivals <\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-socializer wpsr-share-icons\" data-lg-action=\"show\" 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