Then
Lamb’s ears plucked where
the stairs are, prairie
grass, steeple here, and
dandelion bends, we
with our mid-winter cap
stretch as the semi’s
balance tips, then a pang
inside, a thousand-
pulse. Noon ceases, that
staid rocking of a chair
ceases, and the grain so
regaled with sun shatters.
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Gareth Lee holds an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University. Born in Hong Kong and raised in Southeast Asia, he lives in New York. His work has appeared in Columbia Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review Online, Northwest Review, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere. It is forthcoming in The Ekphrastic Review and The Pasticheur.
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Bastienne Schmidt is a multi disciplinary artist working with photography, painting and large-scale drawings. She was born in Germany and has lived in New York for the past 30 years. Her art work is included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the International Center of Photography, the Brooklyn Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris among many others. She has published seven monographs, and was the Artist in Residence at the Parrish Art Museum in 2017 and in 2018 was awarded a residency at the Watermill Center. In 2019 she was chosen to be part of the Parrish Art Museum exhibition ‘Artists Choose Artists’. She is the recipient of the Kodak Book Award, the Best German Poto Book Award and the German Photo Prize. She is also a winner of the World Press Photo Award and she received a grant from the Soros Foundation for her documentary work.
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