A few more photos from the Words Made Visible Reception

Adding a few more photos from the Lit Youngstown Words Made Visible Reception (February 3, 2018).

These photos were taken by Melanie Rae Buonavolonta.

Darryl and I looking at art inspired by poetry.

The piece of ceramic art, created by Sean Staser, inspired by my poem, "Every Hole is Broken".

me reading my poetry

Words Made Visible (A Lit Youngstown literary-visual art collaboration & exhibit at The Soap Gallery)

At Lit Youngstown Presents Words Made Visible, a literary-visual art collaboration & exhibit at The Soap Gallery, February 3, 2018

Ceramic art created by Sean Staser, inspired by my poem "Every Hole is Broken".

(The poem that inspired the art - Photos of the art - A photo of me reading my poetry - A photo of me and the art and the artist)
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EVERY HOLE IS BROKEN

You inserted small
bugs into my body
like it was just another
machine
until you lost
and I lost.

You just moved on
to the next slot
and didn't seem to care
that my slot had
stopped working.

Screaming on the other side
of a fallen down mirror.
Imprisoned inside my own
twisted cells. Gagging out
bloody coins until drained.

~Juliet Cook~ 
(previously published in Issue 2 of Rogue Agent)

NEW Rogue Agent - Every Hole Is Broken

"You inserted small
bugs into my body
like it was just another
machine
until you lost
and I lost."

The new Rogue Agent Issue Two has now gone live and includes a new poem by me, "Every Hole Is Broken" surrounded by lots of other body-focused offerings too, all here - http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/issue2