the potato woman raises one eye against the wrongful night, clutching each alien root like a child in her dirty skirts.
tonight's harvest is a mouth not the white rock nor the mountain she had in mind, but a bit of color towards her unborn
her face holds far too much lightning to even speak of storms.
her ears dream that everything is soon and that good moonlight will eclipse the parenthesis of her memories
she has made her thighs the earth and moves the fields with cold, broken flesh
her scars, his constellations; their future.
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she does not know she could have wrote her life on sandpaper.
somewhere. (like a hangover with a memory already born inside it)
when the snow comes she feels ashamed for a moment.
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and there in the midnight between her sorrows and the fields, something yields,
the ice misses by a whole translation and gives her a son.
About the Author
Peter Schwartz is a painter, poet and writer. He's also an associate art editor for Mad Hatters' Review. His artwork can be seen all over the Internet but specifically at: www.sitrahahra.com. He's had hundreds of paintings, poems, and stories published both online and in print and is constantly submitting new work as if his very life depended on it. His last exhibition was through Aesthetica Magazine and featured a projection of his digital painting 'Terminal 4' on a busy street in York, UK. This December his work will be featured at the Amsterdam Whitney Gallery in Chelsea NYC.
My main focus in art is color, design and composition. I have a true passion for color as the art subject itself - how colors fit together, how they communicate with each other within the design, how certain colors combined with one another evoke a certain feeling - this is paramount in my work. I am a social worker, artist and poet living in Austin, TX. Read More...