she

July 2019 | poetry

she hurts

she hurt

she heard

sheep herd

she purged

she pulled

she prayed

she pushed

she played

she paid

she laid

she lays deep in bed

she begged

she bled

she read

she sees red

she led

she is lead

she said

she shed

she shreds

she bred

she bent

she broken

she bruised

she awoken

she amused

she abuser

she abused

she confronted

she confused

she consume

she confess

she undressed

she less

she more

she a mess

she a mistake

she make

she take

she been taken

she was asleep

but now she awaken

 

Mary Ade

Mary Ade is a visual and textual artist based in Indiana. Her deeply personal work seeks to encourage vulnerability within herself and others.

American Industrial:

July 2019 | poetry

(mornings are for suicides)

 

the way we dazzle

in confrontation with reality

 

oblong cornered cult              in the sapped death dream

 

tonal physique of                    the prominent doom plume

 

like exposed cricks in fameless antiques

bird swarm in black-thought trees

 

come by clock : massive grave space

all properties of ovarian follicle and soft steel

 

winded legs sway like daisy stems

inhabiting concrete snares

 

now panhandling the rouge of creased cheekbones

pinched                                   veils of late summer

petals

painfully

pallid                                       gall of the lily flushed sour

 

like the whole furloughed town

that worked at the trainyard,

was shut down,

 

now there is no direction out

 

Jes C. Kuhn

Jes C. Kuhn is the author of three volumes of poetry, ‘Thigh Gap and the Vow of Poverty’, ‘American Sundays or pulling color from dead murals to paint living mirages’ and ‘The Penny Thief Sonnets’. His poetry, creative non-fiction and blog posts have been published in Corridors, Two Hawks Quarterly and Water~Stone Review, among others. He is currently enrolled in Hamline University’s MFA-Creative Writing Program. Kuhn lives, writes and teaches in Haunted, WI.

Harold Olejarz

July 2019 | visual art

Ardtornish Sheep

Sunflower

George Washington Bridge

Harold Olejarz

Harold Olejarz began his career as a sculptor. He worked mostly in wood and created wood sculptures ranging from waves to figural sculptures inspired by Greek sculpture. In the 1980’s he exhibited in and participated in managing the only Soho Cooperative gallery dedicated to sculpture. Later, he turned to Performance Art and created wearable sculptures. He installed himself, as a work of art, in museums and public spaces across the country. Articles about Olejarz’s performances appeared in many newspapers and were featured on TV news programs, including NJN and WOR in the New York area. He even made the cover of the NY Daily News. Olejarz’s art has been exhibited in numerous galleries and at the New Museum in New York and The Newark Museum, The Morris Museum and The Jersey City Museum in New Jersey. Olejarz was awarded a public art commission by NJ Transit. For this commission he created two etched glass block windscreens, that are installed at the Pavonia/Newport Light Rail Station in Jersey City. Image manipulation has fascinated Olejarz since 1990 when he first explored image manipulation with early digital tools like ColorIt! and early versions of Photoshop. Born raised and went to two colleges in Brooklyn, NY. Brooklyn College, BA, 1975; Pratt Institute, MFA 1977. He now lives in Tenafly, NJ