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See you in Seattle!
Events at AWP at which Clare will appear. See you in Seattle! MadHat & Plume Present: an off-site reading at the AWP Friday, February 28th, 2014 @ 6 pm to 9 pm Taphouse Bar & Grill...
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Out of sorrow beautiful things may come.
In June, I will lead a poetry project through the Recovery Academy* with women clients of Acadiana Outreach. What I hope to achieve in the nine sessions is to give participants, through structured,...
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Writing At Rêve Coffee Roasters
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) Nu au bord de la mer (1909) “The unpainted world accepts the shore” a line from Wallace Stevens’ “So-And-So Reclining on Her Couch” (1947) She pulls the string from...
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“A CARAFE, THAT IS A BLIND GLASS”
Portrait of Gertrude Stein, 1905 by Pablo Picasso. Courtesy of http://www.PabloPicasso.org I opened Gertrude Stein’s “Tender Buttons.” The first poem is “A CARAFE, THAT IS A BLIND GLASS” This...
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Poem after Angel Bath series by Dennis Paul Williams
Angel Bath after a mixed media art piece in the Angel Bath series by Dennis Paul Williams The fetal heart stops in a globe of light bones work their way through flesh flesh-in-water her cheek...
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“I’ve been circling for thousands of years”
“I’ve been circling for thousands of years” after a line by Rainier Maria Rilke I’ve been circling for thousands of years. The mountaintops skim my heavy skirts. I glide toward the earth and trees...
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Embryonic Self
“Embryonic Self*,” mixed media, by Clare L. Martin A tree held in its branches a womb that carried me. My strong heart beat brilliant red through fluid translucence. A thick cord connected me to...
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Psyche
“Psyche” by Clare L. Martin, mixed media, 2016 Filed under: Art, Artists, Creativity, Dreams, Life, Self, Self Portraits
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“Marsh Song I”
“Marsh Song I*” Mixed media, Clare L. Martin ©2016 Inspiration— We drive westward along the Louisiana coast on a crumbling highway with my parents. The sky purples with becoming light. Our bellies are...
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Rose
She bathes in rose, an old scent. Cold water at the base of her neck. She shivers, cold, rose on her skin, pink, rose, again. Rose to her mouth, her cheeks. Rose in her hair. She breathes and is...
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Blackbird
a memory: leaves in piles a kiss hazel eyes a rotten picnic table soft hands the hands of a philosopher the hands of a seeker, a poet children of the Universe lover kisses the curves under a soft...
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Stages
I have been going deep into mind/body memories in a project I am calling “Stages” that is very new and yet to be defined, except that it is incorporating my original hand-drawn and mixed media art...
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Oh, tender stranger
Oh, tender stranger, unzip her heart Enter the ventricle Slip your fingers into its radiance She is prepared for you Her kiss is the bitterest sea This milk is the permutation of a mother’s malady Sip...
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Trial
God made the slit while I slept in the womb. One quick slice. Flesh, flesh, I sing. My sisters do not know this trial. Water never reaches thirsting mouths. Wolves pad the forest floor with their...
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syn·es·the·sia
“syn·es·the·sia” by Clare L. Martin, mixed media, 2016Filed under: Art, Artists, Creativity
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Field Afire
“Field Afire” by Clare L. Martin, mixed media, 2016Filed under: Art, Artists, Creativity, Louisiana, Nature, Self
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Feminine Abstract
“Feminine Abstract” by Clare L. Martin, charcoal on paper, digitized, filtered. 2016.Filed under: Art, Artists, Body, Creativity, Life, Louisiana
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Encircled
“Encircled” by Clare L. Martin, charcoal on paper, digitized, filtered. 2016.Filed under: Art, Artists, Body, Creativity, Death, Dreams, Life, Self Portraits
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Nameless City
“Nameless City,” mixed media, Clare L. Martin, 2016 “Each bone is a highway. Each organ’s a town on the map of the body.” What is the nameless city he has taken me to? In it, we reside in a junky...
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Chalice in the Mountains
“Chalice in the Mountains” by Clare L. Martin, mixed media, 2016Filed under: Art, Artists, Creativity, Dreams, Self
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