she’s unmasking the darkness, beast by beast–
with an unidentifiable cry
the night opens, the wilderness released
and swallowed by ancestral sounds—the sky
burning beyond heat—how to occupy
this landscape?—waves of pure dark animal
power, a language untranslatable–
hells breaking loose on the verge of dying–
recombining, lost, incompatible
with mass or gravity—and so!—flying
My poem wasn’t chosen for The Ekphrastic Review this week–the challenge was an evocative painting by Wladyslaw Podkowinski–so I decided to do a collage and take up Frank’s challenge at dVerse and turn the poem into a dizain.
I am always constrained in my art by what I have in my collage box, which is why the horse is upside-down, and the woman in parts. My dizain was then colored by the collage, which I completed while re-working the poem. An ekphrastic conversation.
You can see the original painting and read the chosen responses here. As always, an interesting array of writing.
K. 
I’ve just this minute posted one of my (unsuccessful) poems for the challenge. I like your impassioned flight.
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Thanks! I’ll take a look.
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so evocative!
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Thanks Jodi. It was an interesting painting to work with.
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I like how you get to flying at the end by being incompatible with mass or gravity. That would be the way to fly.
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Thanks Frank. Flying seems to be a good way to end things.
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Your collage is scary, but awesome (in the original sense)–as is the poem. It’s like a goddess doing battle. So much energy and power, but then the flying!
I recently commented to someone that the whole dying thing is so awful, and we should just be able to fly up into the sky.
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Thanks Merril.
Yes death seems to take much too long to come in the end. I wonder if that’s just a result of our present age of medicine.
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I don’t know. Perhaps.
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I like the cycle of your creative process.
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Thanks Claudia. It’s all improvisation.
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Nicely executed Dizain KERFE. Engaging read – good job. Great collge!
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Thanks Rob. It was a good painting for inspiration.
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As a dizain, this is brilliant! In every respect.
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Thanks so much Rosemary!
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I know you say this is a subsequent edit, but it’s still a great fit for that piece of art in the challenge.
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Thanks Ken. I’m always tinkering with what I write. I think this was an improvement (not all of them are…)
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