INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
Shutta Crum
Paul B. Roth
Laszlo Slomovits
Duane Locke
Felino Soriano
Chris Lord
Jerry Blanton
Carmen Firan
Amelia Makinano
Connie Stadler
Fred Wolven
Duane Locke
Tolu Ogunlesi
Running Cub
Joanie Freeman
Gerald Clark
Karyn M. Wolven
Holly Day
Dike Okoro
Fred Wolven
--after Hans Sieverding's o.T. 18.4.06
Silhouette, hers
hanging
wheat threads threefold
dangling
her unto softened notes
musical chemistry
shapes of why an artistic mind
follows historic hands
creating echoes of the previously ordained,
simultaneously hailed. Her
privotal attire desensitized
to the colorful nuance of
social adaptation. Assisted
by the hand forming adequate attire
she mimics and contorts
through relevant control above
bon vivant adulation.
PAINTERS' EXHALATIONS 557
--after Alberto Reguera's Despertares
Positional
apparition
apprehension awakened
high near elsewhere's
oscillating portrayal.
Said of light's giant eye
rising into sanctified purpose, its
veiled lens basket weaving
light into pattern recognized,
the finger of ground's safely walking
draws and etches
designs and affricates
terminology only understood
as night's misunderstood
retires into slumbering, achromatic
design.
PAINTERS' EXHALATIONS 558
--after Marguerite Thompson's Morning Milk
Felines
feel though personalized aspects.
Their
resting paws portraying weighted scales of
acclimated balance. Tongues
such as fingers' curious tonal trepidation,
reach and
bend
realign with clawed teeth rows
paralleling white porcelain
meant of calming design.
PAINTERS' EXHALATIONS 559
--after Harold Weston's Forms Adirondack
On a specified day clouds
resemble errant echoes
spoken from the violent voice of
esoteric smoke
mountain's usual massive
physiology
appears shrunken
metaphoric distance described
though smoke's incessant walking away,
man's copacetic stagnancy
relevant in the realism
death opposes selfless ascension.
PAINTERS' EXHALATIONS 560
--after Mizue Sawano's Rain
Rain
such as these simultaneous
slants
call toward familial tiny toes
dancing on first recall
toward childhood memories,
those suppressed because
not all of youth recommends
socialized sharing outside
of specialized therapy.
Rain
slanting's hands
drawing contours with
subtle precision, perishing
in the untying methods of
tranquilizing deluge.
Felino Soriano, Santa Maria, California