sometimes, i feign sleep
just to watch you exercise
i image insinuating myself in all
the curves of your body
to be the air that surrounds you
Opal Palmer Adisa is a poet, fiction writer and performer. Jamaican born, she is also a literary critic and a storyteller. Her published works are It Begins with Tears, novel, Heinemann, 1997; Tamarind and Mango Women, 1992 (which won the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award); traveling women, 1989, Bake-Face and Other Guava Stories, 1986 and Pina, The Many-Eyed Fruit, 1985. Recordings include "Fierce/Love" with Devorah Major, 1992.
Her poetry, fiction and essays have also been published in numerous magazines. Her newest collection, Eros Muse (Africa World Press), 2006 explores her love for writing and personifies her muse as her ultimate lover. Adisa loves writing about the sensuous and things of the heart. Her other publications are Until Judgment Comes (Peepaltree Press), stories, 2006; Caribbean Passion, poetry, 2004 and Leaf-of-Life, poetry, 2002.