The Unnatural History of Scars and Flowers by J.J. Steinfeld was published in Fjords Volume 1, Issue 1.
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Kelli Allen is an award-winning poet, editor, and scholar. Her poetry and fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Puerto del Sol, Echo Ink Review, Poetry Quarterly, Fjords, Abridged, Other Poetry,Lyre Lyre, The Blue Sofa Review, WomenArts Quarterly, The Caper Review, It Has Come to This: Poets of the Great Mother Conference, Foliate Oak, Greatest Lakes Review, Lugh Review (where she was the featured author), Blackmail Press, The Chaffy Review, Euphony and elsewhere. She has been the featured poet for Desperanto Press's segment "Tea With George" for September 2011.
The Story by Suzanne Roberts is from Fjords Arts and Literary Review Volume 1, Issue 2. Segement produced by Job Lim Productions in cooperation with Theatre 502.
Elegy for the Stem
April 24, 2012
Seoul, South Korea
by Kayti Doolitle
Used matches line the bottom of Jean-Michel Othoniel's Wishing Wall, for his My Way exhibition at the Plateau Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea. The large-scale wall is covered in one of Othoniel's precious metamorphic mediums, phosphorous. Viewers are advised to strike the match on the phosphorous, lighting the small stick. This process produces an original mark incised in the deep red of the wall. To complete the performance, the viewer blows out the match, leaving it at the foundation of the wall, making a wish. The Wishing Wall is covered with sharp scratches or wishes of people from all over the world, even a wish from Kansas City, Missouri. If only walls could talk.
From the Wishing Wall, the exhibition begins with Othoniel's earliest work, Self Portrait in a Priest's Robe. The 1986 4.6 X 6.7 cm black and white photograph is considered Othoniel's first true artwork. The image of Othoneil twirling in a priest's robe outdoors is rich with pointed and clear tones. The scene appears to be joyous, but also exudes an uncertainty. Of all of Othoneil's pieces, this work is the only one that articulates something somber, haunting, and dark.
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LOOKING IN THE MIRROR
Even a fly has a kind
of stature buzzing down the mouth of
a cannon.
It's easier to hear
the bones rattle while night bends
heavy as a lynching tree
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