etched in silver
i’m a woman
no longer young
changed by water
and wind, etched
in silver and want
hot flesh, a face
disappearing into
landscape
~kat
A blackout poem based on the poem below by Allison Funk:
Self-Portrait in the Nude
To understand what it would be like
to remove my clothes
as painters do in portraits of themselves
I imagine I’m the woman
who knows her body
no longer belongs to the young artist
who painted herself before she had children,
before her topography was changed
by forces erosive as water and wind,
and yet she goes on painting it,
the girdle of her earth that is now an etched terrain
crossed with silver rivulets.
And hills, I want to say to her.
Valleys. Then hummocks,
hot springs, hoodoo. What is art about
if not depression? Uplift? Depression
again? At which she straightens
the flesh of her shoulders and neck
to face me before I disappear(ing)
into landscape,
my favorite state of undress.
Copyright © 2018 Allison Funk.
February 10th, 2020 at 2:57 pm
Wonderful.
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February 10th, 2020 at 6:56 pm
Thank you Sadje. I’m tiptoeing back in. Love this form.
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February 10th, 2020 at 8:58 pm
You’re so good at it.
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February 10th, 2020 at 3:25 pm
Very coll
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February 10th, 2020 at 3:26 pm
*cool 🤦♀️
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February 10th, 2020 at 6:55 pm
Thanks Claire! 😊
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February 10th, 2020 at 3:38 pm
Brilliant (like the new pic too)
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February 10th, 2020 at 6:54 pm
Thank you Di! 😊
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February 11th, 2020 at 3:21 am
you are most welcome
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February 10th, 2020 at 5:35 pm
I’m pleased to see these back. xx
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February 10th, 2020 at 6:51 pm
Easing back into a routine. How I’ve missed it! 😊
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February 10th, 2020 at 5:36 pm
This worked out amazingly, Kat. I love the idea of our looks becoming landscape as we age.
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February 10th, 2020 at 6:51 pm
I know. Me too. Fading gracefully back to our source.😊
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February 10th, 2020 at 5:38 pm
Both poems are quite good.
I’ve never tried a blackout poem- you always have such fun forms here.
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February 10th, 2020 at 6:50 pm
Thanks. I’m easing my way back into a routine. 😊
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February 23rd, 2020 at 11:24 am
This is mystical and beautiful
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February 23rd, 2020 at 12:06 pm
Thank you Lynn!
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