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| Issue 20: | 15 Sept. 2023 |
| Poem: | 60 words |
By Nina Lindsay
Strangers to Ourselves
—Still life, after Libby Black *
Hairbrush bug-like on its backside bristling with white Spilled seeds with faulty memories waiting, still, on the bench Dread and pleasure jostle for space in my veins distilled and irreconcilable I stand before the weeks-old arrangement preparing to toss it as late light pierces the onion flower just now breaking its sheath.
Publisher’s Notes:
An example of still-life sculpture by contemporary American artist Libby Black, as exhibited at MCD (The Museum of Craft and Design) in San Francisco: The Build Up, 2021 (paper, paint, pencil, and glue); click on image for larger views.
Visit Libby Black’s website galleries to view selections of her drawings, paintings, and her still-life sculptures, the latter of which also includes Secrets (2018; paper, acrylic paint, pencil, and glue):
https://www.libbyblack.com/sculptures
For more about the artist and her works, see Libby Black Processes the World Around Her By Recreating It, an art review by Maria Porges in Hyperallergic (15 May 2022).
Links retrieved on 22 August 2023.
Nina Lindsay
is a previous contributor to KYSO Flash and the author of two collections of poetry from Sixteen Rivers Press: Because (2016) and Today’s Special Dish (2007). Her work has appeared in Barrow Street, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Poetry International, Prairie Schooner, Third Coast, and other journals.
More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond
⚡ After Rain, a poem by Nina Lindsay in Cider Press Review (Volume 23-1, April 2021)
⚡ Nina Lindsay at Sixteen Rivers Press (includes numerous resource links)
⚡ When I Was the Moon, a poem in KYSO Flash (Issue 11, Spring 2019)
⚡ To the Evening, a poem in KYSO Flash (Issue 2, Winter 2015)
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