Mummy Dreams Painting Michael Cookinham

Nefertiti Among Us

The TV’s neutral male voiceover covers what we love about Egypt and their pharaohs: house-sized rocks that formed the pyramids dropped in place without machine, sentries to this day guarding the embalmed dead, the slight queen’s…

Photo Poem Montages

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In seeming counter-intuition to the usual process of listening to poetry and allowing each reader to supply his or her own internal imagery, I've been experiementing with making photo poem montages set to music. I've been blessed to work closely…
blue and white glass with bubbles Robyn Beattie photo

She Dressed in a Hurry (for Lady Diana)

She dressed in a hurry  or perhaps never wore a slip. The photo the press loved: a girl in a skirt, distance between her thighs backlit by the sun, a circle of children in her care birthed by other mothers. The obvious didn’t escape…

Nefertiti on the Astral

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Nefertiti on the Astral I did what I came to do. Dead, I have the luxury to know: the locus of power is not the body, though how lovely: my daughter’s daughter’s etc., daughter, sitting beside the Nile, sun falling on the brown…

Amelia

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Blood-wing blackbird, deserting again the nest of spice, to burn, in the circle of my domain: the open miles of sky, my body—and edges of a stranger’s forged wings--meeting at the cusp of dawn, valves sweetening....   Amelia,…