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The Body Botanic: Poetry and Cyanotypes
The Body Botanic: Poetry and Cyanotypes

Poetry and unique cyanotype prints illustrate the body and botanical themes.

2021

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Amy Jasek
Amy Jasek

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Texas Highways

On mistaken identities — For the longest time I confused blankets with paintbrushes A misinformed misnomer, perhaps, or maybe when my childhood question was answered it was in passing at speed, a blur of color outside the window in a spring green well-seeded highway median Myths and misunderstandings are built this way upon one wrong end…

Poetry

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Texas Highways
Texas Highways
Poetry

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For WS Merwin

National Poetry Month Letters to Poets Series — Here I am just trying to save the world with one love letter at a time. Writing unfurls slowly in a busy clime, in the hothouse of a framework that hurls challenges at me constantly. Effects seem unlikely. Bravely I pick daisies and count the petals, aloof of all rejection (just kidding, not really; I’m too touch feely) Hope keeps towing…

Poetry

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For WS Merwin
For WS Merwin
Poetry

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Dear Samuel (Can I Call You Sam?)

National Poetry Month Letters to Poets Series — Where in Xanadu, tormented soul, could you now be found whole? With all of life’s blue problems washed away, in white robes whose hopes blossomed like a new day evermore from the shore waving. Bowl upon golden bowl takes its toll. So shipwrecked, the serpent’s chase; his hiss, amiss, his bite, so sweet, replaced…

Poetry

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Dear Samuel (Can I Call You Sam?)
Dear Samuel (Can I Call You Sam?)
Poetry

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Turquoise Trail

Into the West Sonnet Series — Seeking a stone to fill the hole of loss that gaped and sang for medicine. Precious as silver mined or a hawk feather tossed by the wind, where the high desert’s spacious grace gives benediction to art. Holy dirt in a hole in the floor, offering a cure, a miracle. We were only travelers, become pilgrims, bestowing meaning…

Poetry

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Turquoise Trail
Turquoise Trail
Poetry

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18 hours ago

The Next Series

Poems and prints —

Poetry

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The Next Series
The Next Series
Poetry

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1 day ago

Today I Can Write (The Saddest Lines)

An Elegy and a Tribute — Today I can write the saddest lines write, for example, “the sun is shining for the first time in weeks but I hardly notice it” the night revolves on the other side of the world, silent today it’s only the saddest lines I loved her, and she loved me too through…

Poetry

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Today I Can Write (The Saddest Lines)
Today I Can Write (The Saddest Lines)
Poetry

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2 days ago

In Celebration of a Beautiful Life Well Lived

A Sonnet Elegy — The sweetest patch of grey that ever lay before the fire, or in the sunshine, wherever warmth was found. With wanton splay she’d claim a bed, be it wide or confined, making comfort out of concrete, making canned fish into a feast. Breaking silence with snores and statements, an undertaking we understood, heart to heart, so entranced as…

Poetry

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In Celebration of a Beautiful Life Well Lived
In Celebration of a Beautiful Life Well Lived
Poetry

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3 days ago

Lotus

Memory in conversation with the body —

Poem

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Lotus
Lotus
Poem

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4 days ago

The Road

St Paul, Revisited, II — I thought the road would rise up to meet me and the wind would remain at my back but it became a whip to beat me It turns out that what I had learned to see became a light that shone on what I lacked all my faults rose with the road…

Poetry

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The Road
The Road
Poetry

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5 days ago

Knocked to the ground, blinded by the light

St Paul, Revisited, I — On a road that I thought I knew smugly convinced this road whose course I firmly knew with my convictions in clear view was evidence in my defense Life showed me roads I never knew Laying awake on a recent night, I composed this poem, half thinking about a conversation…

Poetry

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Knocked to the ground, blinded by the light
Knocked to the ground, blinded by the light
Poetry

2 min read

Amy Jasek

Amy Jasek

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Mother, daughter, photographer, writer. www.texasgirlphotography.com www.instagram.com/amyjasek https://amywritespoetry.com

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