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.
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.
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
