Warm and Fragrant Mangos, Thirty Calla Lilies
Artist
The Alternative Press
Artist
Lee Ann Brown
Artist
Ann Mikolowski
(American, 1940-1999)
Datec. 1993
MediumLetterpress on cardstock
DimensionsPaper Size: 4 × 6 1/2 in. (10.2 × 16.5 cm)
ClassificationsPrint
Credit LineGift of Gary Eleinko, 2023
Object numberUAC7452.07
DescriptionLetterpress printed poem by Lee Ann Brown.Letterpress printed drawing by Ann Mikolowski.
Warm and Fragrant Mangos, Thirty Calla Lilies
Windows with warped glass make the sidewalk look like water.
Your blue dress lies on the shiny wooden floor.
You are splashing in the bathtub full of stolen flowers and eucalyptus.
I am walking out of our two octagonal rooms, up a ladder and to the roof.
Even with so much immediate gravity, the pleasurable thinking of music
is folding down out of the wall.
Beyond new rice paper shades, the next door boy is rubbing the inside
of his window with a piece of cloth.
I'm raising your movie camera to my eye.
You are cutting raw fish, accumulating paper, asking me to pin you
down and make you feel how words are placed in air.
Published by The Alternative Press, The Final Issue Finally.
