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Likin' Lichen
Names for lichen, found on a yellow page (mutt tree |
Never mind. To walk, in a forest like this one, is to go out of mind. Into lucidity. |
Slip in closer. Does the boulder want anything of me? Where is my lifespan here... a barest beyond nothing? |
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Against such rich upholstery
tumble down, loosen --
instead of Q and A, why not peel the questions back? Q to Q to Q --
grooves --
goings-on . . .
Merry Way. Cumin. White Glove. Exposure. |
The angle shifts. Vertical, Such a sense of pressure, now, Then emerges the shadow, A precarious, performative, playful, potential... perspective on the rock. |
Green Love. Shawl Moss. Roots, reaching.... |
This photo essay was inspired by a sequence of pictures Anne Dalke took while traveling in Norway in the summer of 2011, which led to a poem, evolving in conversation between her and Alice Lesnick. Perhaps the next generation in a series of poems about women and geology....? About risk-taking....? About aesthetics??
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