Roberta Schultz
My Hands Trust Love
My hands trust love
like heat everyone holds.
My hands trust love obsessed with soft
that pillows the night against this wall.
My hands trust love like the hard blue of water,
though star sad smile would have none here.
My hands trust love that can shade my friends
with wish trees sweet as a whisper.
My hands trust love like my sister,
who flowers in life and in death.
My hands trust love used to fear
that hovers near in imaginary mist.
My hands trust love's dark dance,
in the dust road's candlelight moon.
Bio
Roberta Schultz is a singer songwriter, teacher and poet originally from Grant's Lick, KY. Her poems and song lyrics have appeared in Women Speak, Vol.7, Sheila-Na-Gig, Panoplyzine, Riparian, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, Kakalak and other anthologies. Three of her chapbooks, Outposts on the Border of Longing, Songs from the Shaper's Harp, and Touchstones were published by Finishing Line Press. Her latest chapbook of poetry, Asking Price, was accepted by Workhorse Writers for their 2022 series. Underscore, 2022, from Dos Madres Press, is her first full-length collection.