Poetry by Amalie Flynn + Images by Pamela Flynn: “#150,” “#151,” “#152,” “#153”

Flow #150

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.

 

 

Flow #151

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.

 

 

Flow #152

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.

 

 

Flow #153

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. 

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Amalie Flynn and Pamela Flynn

Amalie Flynn is a poet and the author of two books, September Eleventh (2021) and Wife and War: The Memoir (2013), and a collection of poetry blogs: September Eleventh, Wife and War, The Sustainability of Us, Border of Heartbreak, and Pattern of Consumption. Flynn’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, Time, and The Huffington Post and has received mention from The New York Times and CNN. Flynn has a BA in English / Studio Arts, an MFA in Creative Writing, and a PhD in Humanities. She serves as poetry editor for The Wrath-Bearing Tree. In her poetry, Flynn seeks to bear witness to violence, to disquiet the reader, and to draw focus to that which connects and disconnects us. Flynn lives in Rhode Island with her husband and their two children. Pamela Flynn is a mixed media artist. Flynn holds an MFA from New Jersey City University and is a Professor of Art and Fine Arts Coordinator at Holy Family University, Philadelphia. She is an exhibiting artist at the Ceres Gallery, NYC, and a member of NYC Phoenix Art Collective, the International Sculpture Center, Hamilton, NJ, and The Women's Caucus for Art, Philadelphia Chapter. Her work has been exhibited nationwide and in South Korea. She is a recipient of the 2006 Puffin Foundation Grant for the project Road Shrines: A Peripheral Blur. Her anti gun violence project Considering Harm continues to be exhibited in many cities throughout the USA. Flynn's work is founded in social/cultural issues. She pushes a notion as far as she can so to let her thought develop. The work does not preach - the work asks the viewer to question one's held views. Flynn is not wedded to one specific medium or process. She allows the thought to direct the medium and process. Flynn's work is in many collections throughout the USA.

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