Our Lady of Eggplant
byDame of the Raging Apple,grant us flavored flesh, oily epiphanies, we moan the globed heft in our palms, in your shiny purple cloak, Empress of Solanum melongena,…
Arts
A Higher Order of Beauty
byArtist Statement Being Cajun, I was raised as a Catholic. However, there was an almost pantheistic component to it from being so deeply intertwined…
Gemini Baby
byI look for a dark line rising up from my pelvis to my breasts,for any sign of you holier than the swelling. Not the…
The Flowery and the Foul
byArtist’s Statement The central idea of this concentration is to combine the human body and insects in compelling ways that create new meanings and…
I might have been a botanist
byif they had let me stay insidethe elementary school biology class,if I had not been sent to the chapel to kneel when my parents…
January Silences
byFurthermore there are degrees of silence. There is a silence in the beauty of the universe which is like a noise when compared with…
Fleeting Insights
byArtist’s Statement The joy of collage is finding the endless connections between seemingly unrelated things. In some collages, the juxtaposition of ordinary with the…
God as a Field of Mule’s Ears Daisies in Colorado
byYellow faces brayingkick the anatomyof day open.Startled green, thick leaves pricklike ears of a stubborn animal. There will never be a worda flower can…
The Territory Now Covered
byThe territory now covered by Erving was settled about 1801, by Col.Asaph White, of Heath, who built a log house in the wilderness. A…
Heroin Ghazal
byGrowth has lifted the county that buried sunflower seedsdeep into the flesh of every body, buried, sprouting seeds uncurling green as a smile, and…