Art by Jodie Filan
Fish #1
Tugging a new lip ring
wriggling platelet dress
green and golden circles shimmer
with movement, rippling
toward the bar
trying to remember an order
or recall for what
I am here.
About the author:
Anne Garwig Lucas‘s poetry has appeared in Cleaver, The Mojave River Review, and TIMBER among other journals and anthologies. She has received mentorship and space and time to write from the Atlantic Center for the Arts and the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. Anne has taught writing for Kent State University and Rutgers University-Newark’s international program in China. She currently serves on the board of Lit Youngstown, a literary arts non-profit.
In the artist’s words:
Jodie Filan is an artist in Saskatoon, born and raised. She has been published in RAR, Dark Ink press, Buddy Lit Zone, *82 Review, Aesthetica (Europe), Pithead Chapel, Nunum, Riza Press, Penultimate Peanut, unstamatic, The Raw Art Review (Spring 2019), High Shelf Press, Please See Me, among others. Recently Ms. Filan also placed 6th in Fusion arts 4th annual B+W competition (May 2019) and a painting of hers was accepted at Art Lark in Albany, New York (Garibaldi Maritime Museum); and another at Greenway Art Festival
You can view her art page here: www.facebook.com/jodiefilanart