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Ekphrastic Challenge, Nov 02
« Thread Started on Oct 14, 2008, 8:33am »

Ekphrastic Challenge for November 2nd

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Seven in Bed

Louise Bourgeois (b. 1911- )

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Re: Ekphrastic Challenge, Nov 02
« Reply #1 on Nov 3, 2008, 6:37am »

when none of us had names
we lay stitched
color of earth that fed us

grinning on silver
& in naked arms
bearing all one nameless name

who could call us I
or speak of love
in that photographed dream?

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Re: Ekphrastic Challenge, Nov 02
« Reply #2 on Nov 4, 2008, 8:03am »

I saw this piece in person in Paris this past spring! It is just as oddly disturbing in 3-D as it is in this photo. :-/

Influenced by the ekphrastic challenge and the nearby sonnet "salon," I am trying my hand at a sonnet about this work. It probably won't make it onto the board here, but I want to thank you for inspiring a poem draft that otherwise wouldn't have been created!

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Re: Ekphrastic Challenge, Nov 02
« Reply #3 on Nov 4, 2008, 8:21am »

Elizabeth, I love your poem! Evie's post picked up on what made it so difficult for me to write to the artwork - 'oddly disturbing' . But your poem is beautiful and turns the artwork into something beautiful too ... I think I may give up on trying to write to all these and spend my time enjoying what others create here. Hope yours does make it here, Evie

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Re: Ekphrastic Challenge, Nov 02
« Reply #4 on Nov 5, 2008, 10:20pm »

Slow Learner

A few of us have tried
bedding one or another
of the two-headed
triplets of Janus,

but they clasp each other's past,
kiss each other's future
and make of the present
an illusion
so naked
you can't help but hop
into the Scylla/Charybdis
of their sheets. My mother

told me to avoid the heady handsome ones,
the soft-bellied thinkers
so lost in their own crenelated visions
of themselves, they went beyond
Narcissism, not needing
the least pool to reflect
on themselves. Their certainty

was its own reward. Soon
enough, I learned that being
little more than an extension
of a bifurcated ego
gave me a sinking doubt
of my own reality. Still

every now and again
I really want to cook up
that favored dish,
see the doubly hungered
look in his pairs of eyes,
think how I might actually
become past and future both,
and of course, be very present.

R. Joyce Heon
November 5, 2008

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