Because the poem cannot be completed without an Other's response, the Chatelaine shares, "Moi am all about Toi."

Monday, May 16, 2011

HAY(NAKU AND JEWELRY!

Cynthia at POEMFLESH2 responds to Eileen Tabios' THE THORN ROSARY with a chained hay(na)ku--click on excerpt below for whole poem:
shelterless
the mind
refuses to fade

Cynthia is a multi-genre artist who also created jewelry in response to some of Eileen's poems. Here are pics--the first on the kitchen island, next to photos of Eileen's beloved cats Artemis and Scarlet:



The second photo is of Eileen wearing the jewelry as she picks up a bronze figurine that once resided with brilliant poet kari edwards:



Cynthia explains some of the conceptual underpinnings to the bracelets--
1) Haiti--red: blood. Green for rebirth and renewal

2) "I consider the woman's choice in liberating / a red dress with pale green sandals" (a line from a poem in Beyond Life Sentences / later in THE THORN ROSARY)

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