~After Kandinsky’s Around the Circle
The all-seeing eye is drawn
ever to the city
like a bird with a rutter
at sea in the celestial
waters deep.
We may end up walking through
another portal
still
a door where a pretty bird greets us
on earth to see the moon.
Stay cozy, cuddle up
in a tiny corner we may call home.
Or roam; probe with satellites,
sirens and ships—
a space to orbit
a space bent to twist us
to warp time
backward and forward—
we somersault down
and find what’s above:
this is Orion’s picture of Earth.
Dare we draw closer
and fall into it
and out of ourselves.
About the author: Kara Laurene Pernicano (they/she) is a multidisciplinary artist and poet-critic, routinely working in collage, erasure, poetic monologue, comic art and photography. Through hybrid arts, K Laurene seeks to awaken an interpersonal approach to trauma, grief, talk therapy, and mental wellness. Kara is pursuing her PhD in Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University. She has a MFA from Queens College and a MA from the University of Cincinnati. Her creative work has appeared in Snapdragon, Waccamaw, The Humanities in Transition, Full Stop, the winnow magazine, ang(st), Passengers Journal, Newtown Literary and Madwomen in the Attic.
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