by Rachel Lapides
who are you not to love me? when you kept saying,
what are you thinking about, how was I to know
what I was thinking? to know the all of it?
to know out? to explain? I am thinking of the story
in which I find myself to be the wrong animal
and you a sound. you a sound?
ring for me you sound, you solemn saddled sound.
even away I hear your bellyache cry like
an old hum-to-the-touch. sounds no love for me,
the deer, for me, the strange-rabbit, for me, the unimpeccable
joy-beetle.
Rachel Lapides is studying poetry at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Born London, UK, Mikun Oluwayemi is a British-Nigerian self-taught visual artist with a life-long interest in photography and art. Working primarily in black and white digital photography, her works explore themes surrounding personhood, memory, and the mundane — focusing on the emotional core of its subject or scene.
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