Diana A (@dianalog.bsky.social)

dianalogbooks on Instagram: "#SealeyChallenge 23/31 Strawberries by Barbara Noda🍓👯‍♀️The same day I picked up Stephanie Niu’s (my 1/31 this month) book from O…" #SealeyChallenge 23/31 Strawberries by Barbara Noda🍓👯‍♀️The same day I picked up Stephanie Niu’s (my 1/31 this month) book from OPL (the newest book on the poetry shelf), I picked up this slim but striking volume, (maybe 1 of the oldest on that shelf) published in 1979. Poetry is always on time, & these 2 ladies are pretty kick*ss: you can look em up!🙏🏻sponsor me (under name: dianalogbooks) or donate direct to #FeedGaza — links in bio or via @openpoetrybooks #TheSealeyChallenge2025#TheSealeyChallenge #31BooksIn31Days #31BooksInAugust #poetry {Image 1 description}[library book sits on wood]Cover art, on a white background, is black line drawing portrait of a person from the chest up. They are wearing a richly-patterned, flowered & tiny polka dotted, open-collar top. They have fine straight hair to their shoulders w/bangs that end just above their eyebrows. A (2 bloom & 2 leaf) flower is tucked into their hair on their left side. Their hands are held loosely together just to the right of their chin & lower left cheek. Their gaze is directed slightly to the viewer’s left. All text in red.[At the top, medium-size, left justified:]Barbara Noda[Large, centered, above the art:]STRAWBERRIES [below the art, centered, at bottom edge:][small:] Drawings By [medium:] Wendy Yoshimura{Image 2 description}[poem near the end of Strawberries shown. You can see the shadow of a B&W line drawing by Wendy Yoshimura showing through from the reverse side of the p: a person with shoulder-length dark hair sitting on a short stool resting their cheek on their hand/fist]HER PRESENCE LIKE A SOFT WIND SHE CHIMES THE TEMPLE BELLS//This is my temple of stones ancient and undisturbed and you are the yellow flower I picked by the roadside./Your sun-filled wavering body a mirage of water in a desert falls like an autumn of leaves a season—in this unchanging place. /You follow me on moonbeam slippers where I have never been followed before, like a dying child you gently ease toward heaven. https://www.instagram.com/p/DNuo_OgXO83/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==