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Summer
2005
Krista Franklin
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VISUAL WORKS
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Krista Franklin is a poet,
visual artist and educator who hails from Dayton, OH, and
currently works and resides in Chicago, IL.
Her poems and visual art
have appeared in/on several literary journals and websites,
including Nexus Literary and Art Journal, milk, Warpland,
Obsidian III, nocturnes 2: (re)view of the literary arts,
milkmag.org , ambulant.org, and errataandcontradiction.org
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She has also been published
in the anthologies The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order
and Bum Rush The Page: a Def Poetry Jam.
She is a Cave Canem fellow,
and was a featured poet in the 2000 New Voices New Worlds
Series in St. Louis, MO.
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franklin, chicago, poet, poetry, performance art, public schools,
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infinity:
a love poem (for my mother, C.F.)
This
is her answer to everything:
Get on your knees
Draw a beam of light
From God's eye
Get
on your knees
Pull the answers
From God's eye
Gaze cast wide as fishing net
Pull
the answers
Buried in the code of your body
Gaze cast wide as fishing net
There is no separateness
Buried
in the code of your body
The secret to eternity
There is no separateness
Progenitor is progeny
The
secret to eternity
Tucked on a shelve in her mind
Progenitor is progeny
Her womb full of others' children
Tucked
on a shelve in her mind
My body passing through hers
Her womb full of others' children
She heals herself
My
body passing through hers
Hazy as a 95 degree morning
She heals herself
The divine erupts inside her
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