BELATED happy National Poetry Month!
“I Know Crips Live Here” by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
“Prayer for Werewolves” by Stephanie Burt
“Tin Busket” by Jenny George
“Give Ear to My Words (Psalm 5)” by Ernesto Cardenal
“Penelope / Odysseus” by Alex Peery Clark @two-bees-poetry
“Achilles / Patroclus” by LJ Moore
“First They Came for the Jews” by Pastor Niemöller
“Two-Headed Calf” by Laura Gilpin
“she asked me if i believed in god and i told her that when i was four i almost drowned in a public pool and in my panic mistook a stranger for my father.” by @inkskinned
“all this living is catching up to me” by @hauntedomens
“The Hymn of Patroclus” by Penelope L. P. @penelopelpa
“The first lines of emails I’ve received while quarantining” by Jessica Salfia
“Song for Baby-O, Unborn” by Diane di Prima
“Question” by May Swenson
“Young People” by Richie Hofmann
“The Bronze Arms” by Richie Hofmann
“The Trans Agenda is to Keep My F*cking Friends Alive” by Sol Rios
“For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper” by Joseph Fasano
“The Boy Scout Pledge” by Michael Glatze
“How to Watch Your Brother Die” by Michael Lassell
“We Have Enough Dead Friends” by Lena Oleanderson @lena-oleanderson
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“Basket of Flowers,” watercolor on paper, 2025
Full post on my Instagram @ yvepaints
Untitled (warning: gore, war)
Metallic petrichor grows into my lungs
As reverse-aged wine flows into a blood sea.
Trauma stains the Earth,
Unresolved cruelty bleeding
Into the forest floor.
The moss cannot process fast enough,
Becoming a crimson-dyed carpet,
Sponging out vermillion blood.
“Prairie Winds,” acrylic & glitter on stretched canvas, 2023
Full post on my Instagram @ yvepaints
trick or treat!
“Centennial Means 500 Years of Genocide!” by Ricardo Favela (photo taken at Frist Art Museum 9-21-24)
Your art is amazing for learning how to stylize features! (It’s gorgeous regardless but I thought I’d share what I’ve gleaned from it.)
Don’t mind him being pastel. I color coded the steps haha.
Oh my goodness!! I LOVE this!!! Thank you so much, glad my art is helpful in some way! 🥰
Fix (warning: substances, abuse, enslavement, self harm, suicidal ideation)
Pile up my substances
I want control
Obey my captors
The same old, same old
Countless masters I serve
Superficial reality
Rinse and repeat
Lies I tell myself to fall asleep
Cut up my willpower
And sell it to a fallacy
I want my life back
Tell me it’s not too late
Don’t want to say goodbye
Sick of paying for mistakes
Blood-Singed II (warning: addiction, body horror)
Burnt red wine
Slinking down to slender fingertips
As sweet blood
With bite.
Wholly tremoring
With a fragile gaze
And blurred existence.
GAD
Makko-powdered ether—
Floral-membraned leather
Etherizes my heather.
Brain filling up with lies,
Sidereal eyes
Highlight my cracked smile.
Undermine my sanity,
Earthquake my gaze;
Plagiarize the quality
My cerebrum behaves.
“Palestine,” acrylic, watercolor, & paper collage on paper, 2024
A visual commentary on the U. S. government’s involvement in the genocide of Palestinians 🍉