M A McDonald


LAS PERLAS DE SANTA CLARA (concluded)

volnus (cut)

It's as if

someone thought

you needed another mouth, or

a reason to weep.

numquam (scale)

Smallest,

it follows, falls

as all do.

aequilibrium (eqilibrium)

Began

as

what was.

laetitia (joy)

embraced,

laced, braided

risen.

lento

the air

signature

of

alba

where water filters

under,

air




M A McDonald is an artist and teacher who presently lives and works between Wisconsin USA, Europe, and Tokyo, Japan. She is the recipient of grants from the Pollock-Krasner, Puffin, Mary Nohl (travel) and New York Fellowship Foundation. She has collaborated visually with writers, poets, and composers, including video and still images for French writer Anca Cristofovici (Stela, 2015, Ninebark Press). Recent exhibitions include online platforms for art and poetry in Paris, Budapest, and New York, as well as exhibitions at the Wisconsin Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Wisconsin Historical Society, Venice, Italy and the Hamburg Altonale 18. She is represented by galleries in San Francisco, New York, and Milwaukee.
 
 
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