SPIDER / 150
Thick in Louisiana swamps
Atchafalaya Basin
Hot cypress shooting out
Stretching in that bayou
Where pipelines
Pumping black gold oil
Cross across the swamp
Like spider veins.
TRACKS / 151
How I find tiny cuts
The skin of my inner
Thighs outer lip my
Labia
Cuts from his finger
Nails small bloody
Crescents
Like beetle tracks.
SPOIL / 152
Or deep in a swamp
How oil companies
Create canals
Push earth into piles
Push mud into banks
These spoil banks or
Dams
That block blocking
Water so it cannot
Flow.
CLAM / 153
The sky is full of trees
Now after
After he hits me over
The head
With a pipe metal pipe
Hard on
The crown of my skull
Bone and
Suture cracking like a
Clam shell.
Pattern of Consumption is a year long project featuring 365 poems by Amalie Flynn and 365 images by Pamela Flynn. The poetry and images focus on the assault on women and water.