A California poet, graphic designer, and letterpress printer, Theresa Whitehill has been a resident of Mendocino County in northern California for over twenty years.
She currently collaborates with California chef and writer Shannon Hughes on culinary poetry events, combining poetry with food in a venue intended to enhance the words and flavors in an intimate setting.
Mastery of silence
and of longing, in her
Bedouin’s tent,
the moon unfolds
the night on warps
of honey. Honor her
with the tongue held
lightly in the mouth,
Standing in the shadow
of a walnut tree on the night
of the Hunter’s Moon, at the
moment the mockingbird
begins his inquiry of the night,