1. Bees of bullets flowers bloomed throughout, identical color, trail… Doomed garden births colossal carnivorous flowers, swallows the bees. 2. Engraved epitaph recalls ruinous memory trails, detailing forgotten past. Cartographic life moments tracing hesitant memories, triggered catastrophic avalanche. 3. Quivering phantom limb restless circadian rhythm, feathers blanketed sunlight. Lost wing commemorates protection of women, mythical bird Jatayu. 4. Triaxial launching exhilaration halting transmitting thoughts bewitching lehnga dance. Cursed oceanic triangle sinking triaxial experiments, interrupting the waltz.
Jugalbandi/Entwined Haiku is a set of two nine-word Haiku with three words in each line.
Image descriptions
These image descriptions were sourced from participants in a University of Michigan graduate course, Disability Arts and Culture: Speculative Embodiment (Petra Kuppers). Writers: Anna Stabnick, Gwynneth VanLaven, Casey Brott
Broad, bold brushstrokes of yellow, orange and coral tones, some overlaying a sky blue color, clustered at the top and bottom of the page forming two images taking up most of the page but just slightly off center from each other. On top of these pools of color are scribbles that look much like trying to get an old, dried up ball point pen to write on a page, and like the writer became furious, or distracted, leaving a mess of swirls taking up much of the page space.
Two bold shapes constructed of layered texture and color, each occupying about half a white portrait-shaped page. One shape is built of breathy red and vertical blue strokes, side by side, with a burnt brown brushed atop the blue. Tickling the top two-thirds of the shape are squiggly pencil-thin marks, the texture of hair atop. broad, anger, somber, bright- sense of loss- dripping water. Scribbles bring speed, intensity of emotions. Cannot be contained within lines, what comes first- the emotions or intensity.
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