Chaos – Caustic Frolic

RE:BIRTH

Amita Basu

All day I’ve struggled not to remember that day, but my cramp has been building, and I sit clutching my belly. I confront my dinner, seeking the culprit: another thing to eliminate.

My coffee’s decaf. (Decaf is safest after heart surgery, so I’m hoping it’ll help prevent heart surgery.) No dairy. (When I was five, I had diarrhea after a pint of ice-cream: I might be lactose-intolerant.) White bread-and-vegan-mayo sandwiches. (Grandma has high cholesterol.)

Nothing left to eliminate: everything that could hurt me is already gone.

All day I’ve kept […]

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Courage Anniversary

Amita Basu

I stroll down the promenade and onto the bridge. This one is closed to automobiles.

Between its dead-gray embankments, the river glows noon-gold. I’ve seen the river at its source: young, leaping motion-mad. Here, near its mouth, matured into inertia, the river drifts. Over the river, past me this balmy June Sunday, people jog, stroll, power-walk, and bicycle. Dog-walkers discipline the curiosity out of their dogs with smart little leash tugs. Old couples, combining constitutionals with treat-shopping, have finally found all the time in the world.

The breeze river-cooled, […]

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Whereabouts Unknown

Eli Coyle

My face feels like an emotional relief map

forever wet

My pockets are full of handkerchiefs

that never dry

My green corduroys lie crumpled

on the hardwood floor

saved for later

our bodies wrapped

in the wax of each other

In the mornings the sky cracks open egg clouds

raining private rain

cloud hidden

whereabouts unknown

where I live alone like pith in trees—

mindless like tumbleweed

mindless like sages

Some days I carry on like a responsible hermit […]

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run rabbit

Nathaniel Chew

I am saying it:

this poem is about loss

and still

it will read at a slant–

metaphor for:

social distance

death (duh)

mistranslation

digitalization

not all who wander

diagnosis

the gloaming realization that writing does not happen out of time

the trouble with deixis: fat fingers

W.V. Quine on radical translation: the linguist says gavagai and means rabbit

the subject says gavagai and means first-rabbit-of-the-warm-waxing-moon

or dewlap-yet-undetached-from-rabbit

or rabbit-which-means-plenty-and-draws-teeth-from-afar

or run

and means herself to escape the subject position

I want to […]

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Order and Chaos – How would we know what light was if darkness didn’t exist?

by Emma Kendall

21.5cm width x 28cm height, biro, pencil, and highlighter pens

About the Artist

I graduated from Textile Design at Bucks New Uni UK with a 1st in 2016. I went straight to London to pursue a career in design, aiming to intern with a big designer fashion brand, and then work my way up from the bottom. Quickly […]

Order and Chaos – How would we know what light was if darkness didn’t exist?AdminCF2023-05-10T14:41:04+00:00

Glitch

by Fabio Sassi

About the Artist

Fabio Sassi makes photos and acrylics using what is considered to have no worth by the mainstream. He really enjoys taking the everyday and ordinary and framing it in a different way. Fabio lives in Bologna, Italy and his work can be viewed at www.fabiosassi.foliohd.com.

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Monoliths

Monoliths #28, Monoliths #33, and Monoliths #49

by Mark Gens

1) Monoliths #28: 2022 26 x 38 inches Ink jet print, collage, photography

2) Monoliths #33: 2022 37 x 36 inches Ink jet print, collage, photography

3) Monoliths #49: 2022 26 x 38 inches Ink jet print, collage, photography

About the Artist

Mark Gens is a multimedia artist whose work includes collage, installation, video, e-literature, […]

MonolithsAdminCF2023-05-10T14:41:42+00:00

Order of Chaos

by Lore Skoulatos

About the Artist

Lore Skoulatos is a writer and artist from New York. Her artwork was showcased in galleries in NYC and the great metro area. Before receiving her BA in Philosophy from Adelphi University in 2019, Skoulatos was in the fashion-art industry and was a model and brand spokesperson featured in Mashable, Snapchat, Vanity Fair, TLC, and various art photography collections. Currently she is pursuing her masters in Interdisciplinary Studies at NYU focusing on the metaphysics of […]

Order of ChaosAdminCF2023-05-10T14:41:54+00:00

Flowers for Odesa and The World Has a Choice

by Cristián Pietrapiana

1) Flowers for Odesa: Acrylic, ink, newspaper on canvas, 20×16 inches, 2022 (comment on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine)

2) The World Has a Choice: Acrylic, ink, newspaper on board, 20×24 inches, 2022 (comment on climate crisis)

About the Artist

Originally from Buenos Aires, Pietrapiana lives and works in New York City. His work explores the […]

Flowers for Odesa and The World Has a ChoiceAdminCF2023-05-10T14:42:04+00:00

Marker, The Gorge, Gyre, and Epoch

by Dennis Jones

1) Marker: 60’x 60”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2022.

2) The Gorge: 60”x 72”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2022.

3) Gyre: 80’x 96”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2022..

4) Epoch: 70”x 89”, acrylic, spray, on canvas, 2022..

About the Artist

Marker, The Gorge, Gyre, and EpochAdminCF2023-05-10T14:43:28+00:00