Emily J. Cousins – Jack

the past is there without faces I try to carry water in a cotton dress lose the family album run away to join the circus in every version the house burns down   it is a few weeks before Easter I walk to the park I am not thinking where I am going all these…

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Emily J. Cousins – Modern Aesthetic

After the procedure she wants us to imagine the lines of Bernini’s Daphne. She says: think of the symmetry, no, the balance. Think of the skill it took to mold her. She says: see me, the composition. I picture taut canvas over a new frame. A drape of wet cloth. She shows a pencil line…