Art: Eclosion by Fiona HsuTHE WAY OF ALL : AN ABECEDARIAN
April is not about you, grasshopper.
Bear your soul in a month more
claustrophobic, when you’re shut up,
defeated by weeks of winter skies—
egg-colored—not Easter-egg-colored.
Fires in bleak pre-dawn hearths
glow from the valley’s aggregate,
huddled in what looks like a pit
incidental drivers see from blue
Jettas and Corollas that sail by
kite-like on the highway. Are you
lunging at oblivion, up on the road,
morbidly recording the relative
nearness of the exit as day arrives?
Or are you in one of the houses,
pondering the folly of crowning
queens and kings when all things,
regal and squalid alike, are bound,
shuttled along the same dead-end
trajectory, even if they are still?
Undercurrents are marbling
violently along, under earth, under
water, unseen by even the satellite’s
x-ray eye. You hop, grasshopper,
you hope, but even from the arc’s
zenith, nothing waits but land.
About the author:
Carolyn Guinzio's writing, film, or visual work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, Agni, December, Harvard Review, Bomb, Boston Review, Magma, Poetry Film Live, and many other journals. Her sixth collection is How Much Of What Falls Will Be Left When It Gets To The Ground? (Tolsun Books, 2018). Among her previous books are Ozark Crows (Spuyten-Duyvil, 2018), Spoke & Dark (Red Hen, 2012), winner of the To The Lighthouse/A Room Of Her Own Prize, and Spine (Parlor Press, 2016). A multimedia project about borders, called FAULT, received a 2019 Artists 360 Grant.
Art: Eclosion by Fiona Hsu
In the artist's words:
Fiona Hsu is a fine artist and self-taught photographer who captures imagery based on her pure imaginations and dreams. She started traditional art since she was 5 and developed blazing passion for fine art photography during her long recovery from a foot tendon surgery. Her works captures the aspects of beauty within woeful and melancholic definitions, narrating a haunted yet quaint story. Fiona's photographs, particularly self portraits, are inspired by her dreams at night, her obstacles and story, and her childhood imaginations.
