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| Issue 17: | 29 Jan. 2023 |
| Disjunctive Ekphrastic | Micro-Poem |
| Sequence: | 33 words |
| + Visual Art: | Paintings |
Poem by Lorraine A Padden
+ Five paintings by four artists
The Impressionist Wing
Olympia’s bouquet the hidden mifepristone
carding all customers at the Folies Bergere
tweeting about her dishpan hands ballerina
exclusion zone the radiant green lilies
the misogynist’s day job piano lessons
Olympia (1863) by Édouard Manet 1 
Olympia’s bouquet the hidden mifepristone
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1882) by Édouard Manet 2 
carding all customers at the Folies Bergere
Four Dancers (ca. 1899) by Edgar Degas 3 
tweeting about her dishpan hands ballerina
Water Lilies (1916) by Claude Monet 4 
exclusion zone the radiant green lilies
Young Girls at the Piano (1892) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir 5 
the misogynist’s day job piano lessons
Publisher’s Notes:
Links below were retrieved on 7 January 2023.
1. The original painting Olympia (oil on canvas, 1863) by Édouard Manet (1832–1883) is held by Musée d’Orsay. Image above was downloaded from Wikimedia:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edouard_Manet_038.jpg
2. Manet’s painting A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (oil on canvas, 1882) is held by the Courtauld Gallery at the University of London (UK). Image above was downloaded from Wikimedia:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=83676367
3. Four Dancers (oil on canvas, ca. 1899) by Edgar Degas (1834–1917) is held by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Image above was downloaded from Wikimedia:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Four_Dancers_by_Edgar_Degas_(4987904881).jpg
4. Water Lilies (oil on canvas, 1916) by Claude Monet (1840–1926) is held by the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo. Image above was downloaded from Wikimedia:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monet_Water_Lilies_1916.jpg
5. The original painting Young Girls at the Piano (oil on canvas, 1892) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) is held by Musée d’Orsay. Image above was downloaded from Wikimedia:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Auguste_Renoir_-_Young_Girls_at_the_Piano_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
Lorraine A Padden
is a Touchstone Award-nominated poet whose work has been published in Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, tinywords, and Frogpond, among other journals and anthologies. In August 2022, Red Moon Press will release Upwelling, her first collection of haiku, senryu, tanka, and haibun.
She won Tricycle Magazine’s 2021 Best of the Haiku Challenge, and one of her rengay collaborations with Carol Judkins received an Honorable Mention in the 2021 Haiku Society of America Rengay Competition in honor of Garry Gay. Recent awards include an Honorable Mention in the 2021 International Modern Kigo Competition and a Pinesong Award for a winning haiku in the 2022 Bloodroot Competition.
Lorraine is also a former professional ballet dancer and has received awards from the Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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