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Mental Contagion |
Podcast Interview with Artists and
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Sandy Beach Minneapolis,
MN
Interviewed by Geoff Herbach | Web site
Sandy Beach was awarded a month's residency to the Ezra Pound
Center for Literature in Merano, Italy in 2005. As a Loft Mentor
participant, she studied and read with poet Elizabeth Alexander.
She writes and reads poetry in response to art at various Minneapolis
galleries with TalkingImageConnection.
Her poems have appeared in
Water-Stone Review, the anthology To
Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets from Pre-Territorial Days
to the Present, Sojourn Journal,
Perigee, Poetry Motel, and the National
Women’s Art Museum
Archives in Washington, D.C.
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Verdigris
one
encaustic memories untraced slow burn third degree
slim clinking denies the sound of despair or revision
Arno quay
ancient melting plot of verdigris
tragic heroic finials concur taste of remission
proffer nocturnal mutations in limelight
inspire a surge of inappropriate ballast
the key is to insinuate an ideal midnight
frenetic mumbly–fumbling replaces lust
two
flanking against tidal inclinations revealed
the denial of Eros is not virtue–veritas
unused as it is to illuminated detritus
lunettes of paradise appear as if bark peeled
Unraveling Grace
I accuse the scar faced moon of solicitation
but the ever wily moon protested her innocence
Wolfish night hounds will gnaw the achy bones of mendicants
those brittle from lack of tolerance grow wary of any peculiarity
Insomniacs hold the anodyne for restless apparitions
They posses the flagellant wisdom of mute children
and nearly always choose not to enslave their own children
with the cadences of world weary gods
A peaceable vision overarches a forest of cudgels
mercifully
it is the means to a species of unraveling grace |
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