Arsenic Lobster poetry journal |
Issue Thirty-six Winter 2014 |
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IV. Diamondback Sara Biggs Chaney From Girls, Beasts Russian Photographer Takes Stunning Portraits with Real Animals 1 They stole me from the desert, cut off my tail, shoved flowers in my hair. I woke up under floodlights, where a forest used to be. Someone yanked my eyelids with a pair of forceps while someone else administered the eye drops that would make my pupils, oceans. More people came to tease my hair. I felt the muscles of my inner eye give way, then something hard against my forehead, breathing. Don’t move, they said, swiping my cheeks with rags to catch the last drops of saltwater. Just one more shot. 1 Poems inspired by the photography of Katerina Plotnikova. http://www.laravisual.com/russian-photographer-takes-stunning-portraits-with-real-animals/ The poems are inspired by these photos and their symbolic association with the famous Cluny tapestries. |
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