They were wrong, here is there. The tree that fell overnight still shimmers with flailing roots. Findings, openings, bones that can be cleared from the shale, time is a hawk & I’m a hawk & even our flights are not so elegant. It’s all bodies, awkwardly falling into each other. Think. Think. Crash. —About Darren C. Demaree— My poems have appeared, or are scheduled to appear in numerous magazines/journals, including Hotel Amerika, Diode, North American Review, New …
Tag: Photography
Basenote Bitch * Elizabeth Renstrom * Fragrant Photos + Image Descriptions
Hello, it’s Leona, Aromatica Poetica’s founding editor here. I was delighted to lead a verbal description tour and conversation with the artist Elizabeth Renstrom at Olfactory Art Keller last weekend. I wanted to share some of that fragrant, nostalgic fun with you! For the image descriptions, I chose four of the eight fragrant works and organized them chronologically: Fahrenheit (1988); Dream (1995); Country Apple (1997); and Love Spell (1999). For NYC friends, you can check out the Basenote Bitch exhibition …
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Disgruntled Elites * Digital Photography * Joe Lugara
I’ve been an abstract painter for decades. When I began producing digital photographs about six years ago, it was with the goal of pushing them away from traditional photography and a little closer to painting. To do that, I needed to find painterly tools within the software that would enable me to make brushstrokes akin to those in my oils, acrylics, and watercolors. These florals, from a series called “Disgruntled Elites,” are more commonly known around the studio as “curious flowers.” …
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6 Micro Poems by Margarita Serafimova
1 After the dark, the stairs up smell of future. 2 I remember when you disappointed me for the first time. Almonds were blossoming, I was south near the border. They were as exquisitely fragrant as happiness. I learned to stand up straight as a person pursuing it. 3 I was in the water, the water was inside of me. I smell of sea. I am going where the ones who first came out of the ocean are. …
“Goldilocks Closet Secrets” * Images + Text * Janina Aza Karpinska
Here are some pages from different editions of Goldilocks from my collection of Goldilocks Files –Treated, or altered pages, in the style of Tom Phillips, which was a technique I chanced upon years ago, and which gave me the words and expression I lacked by any other means. I have chosen those which relate to the senses – taste; scent; pleasure. As a little bit of background on the actual technique: I’m indebted to stumbling across the Tom Phillips technique …
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Pond Poems by John L. Stanizzi
About the Pond Poems The poems are from a one-year-long project called POND. The poems are acrostics. Every day, at different times during the day, I would visit our pond with notebook and camera in hand. I’d jot down some notes, take a picture or two, if a good photo op. presented itself. Then I’d head home and write a four-line acrostic using the letters P-O-N-D. The other caveat, which made the project so interesting and challenging to me, was …
Two Poems by Leah Mueller
Half of You When you meet your shadow, be sure to be friendly. Make certain your shadow is comfortable. Ask who it loves and who it hates. You already know the answers, but it will twist the narrative and make up a bogus story. You will believe the story. Spend some time in bed with your shadow. You will want to know how it presses against your exposed skin, how it looks when it can’t see itself. In the morning, …