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fast food
there’s a good spot nearby:
garden-to-mouth / raw, whole foods
served forage-buffet style
and trepadeira pepper
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hues
in french blue pyjamas
july 2025
Sundial
becomes a temporary Sundial
view from a winter bath
Self-possessed: Mona Frida Warhol
There’s a simple term for the look in Frida Kahlo’s eyes: self-possession.
The gaze is not that of the (putatively male, white) viewer looking inwards. It is her own. She’s the one who does the looking. Her preternaturally long neck holds her head completely still and completely erect so that the eyes are front and centre.
But it’s important to remember that Kahlo didn’t become iconic. She created herself, quite literally, as an icon. The process is one she controlled. Though it’s not a comparison I’ve encountered in art history, Kahlo seems to me to be, among other things, a precursor of Warhol. Her images seem to be made for mass reproduction.
birth, the morning eve of november ides, northern hemisphere
the sky is divided crisply into
white and blue in the East
but in the far Southeast,
rather, the far Eastsouth
a golden slit opens
from aural gradations of pink
a cosmic vulva, one, among millions, billions?
birthing an ordinary, extraordinary morning
no pushing, no bearing down, no pain
that’s how easy
birthing once was
parthogenetiXally,
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