fiction
halcyon days
i :: through to the other side
I’m loose & washy,
a watercolor of pink arcs.
I dreamed we were tiny like
One
micron of jazz floating
through the bell of a sax,
steep crags of Sleep.
a black canyon I longed for
but I'm always burning
blazing through Sleep-Time
like some prickly electric Nova,
too hot to be engulfed in
a vacuum of Blissful Ultramarine
sublime::
two golden garments shimmered in the hall
and in the gleam of hanging lamps grew bright
music in blue glass
jazz in glass walking
in a halcyon tunnel you’re 1 piece of smoke.
dream about an Egg. Do it now.
ii:: dream places highway 1
Omnicloud
soft edge of everything.
i am open
your thoughts are pleasant-shaped & drifting
through me like confetti
such a moveable party we are.
party of 2
Rococo Fantasy
the duration of Holst’s Venus.
a great artist creates a more truthful form of beauty
a great artist finds no substantive pleasure in the baroque.
Mellow Zephyr
clarity of you clears
the air :: prismlike
lets your colors kiss
my mind slow & wet
Delta Seven
space of Blissful Mystery.
here our bodies cut fog.
our bodies make light from blackness.
breathe, together.
feel it (transparent hours)
clara cradles her dreams
like a blacksmith cradles his fire
holds out her milky hand,
spidery fingers branching
wanly toward the orbs that surround her.
they bathe in a deep amber light.
she is particular about the quality of her light.
she and her particular light are the only constant.
wordlessly she defines
electronic energy bands;
choosing photons to propagate
through the structure of her mind,
or to pass by untouched.
high and low tones separate
s l o w l y
so slowly bursting
into small rainbows
& distinct phenomena.
you.
you were always beautiful. you were never not
beautiful. radiant with a pure clarity
of intention, the knowledge
of how to love
with a touch that loved love
the way love loved
to be loved.
love is too often a Brancusi, used
but in your hands.
with you.
love chilled out and glittered.
the mythical kingfisher,
immaculate.
we walk through the door
and the atmosphere of Mel’s rearranges itself,
a shrine to your aura.
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A+HRRA award summer 2023
The Summer 2023 Arts + Human Rights Research Award will be open to submissions this summer (approx. 14:51 UTC June 21 2023 - 06:50 UTC September 23rd 2023). The topic of the Summer 2023 A+HRRA is AI, Computer Logic, and Human Rights.
th_Eroses, an arts publication www.theroses.xyz, is awarding $100 for a work of artistic / literary research that addresses or concerns human rights in conjunction with this season's topic, AI, Computer Logic, and Human Rights. The term 'research' here is intended to indicate the process of creation, exploration, and discovery, rather than the compiling of archival facts and/or materials, although the compiling of archival facts and/or materials may be a part of the process of exploration and discovery, or a part of the process of shaping the path or direction of discovery. This is intended to be an open-ended premise, to support the range of work that may occur in artists' and writers' unique processes.
From the UN:
"What Are Human Rights? Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status. Human rights include the right to life and liberty, freedom from slavery and torture, freedom of opinion and expression, the right to work and education, and many more. Everyone is entitled to these rights, without discrimination."
https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/human-rights
Successful submissions may, but are not required to, focus on investigative, process-based exploration and material discovery. Successful submissions may couple rigorous (or subjective) analysis with documentation of investigative, process-based exploration and discovery. Submissions do not need to be factual; forms of literary fiction, subjective expression, abstraction, choreography, and/or non-narrative presentations will be considered as well. Submissions in all languages and media are welcomed.
The goal of this award is to amplify artistic voices that inquisitively and critically approach the pressing issues of our time, to create a habitat where a unique form of creative journalism can thrive, and to provide th_Eroses readers with artistic / literary insights into key issues.
Please note: If your work is submitted and selected for the award, you consent to the publication of your submitted work by th_Eroses now and in the future. Not all submissions will win the award; there may be one submission chosen, or multiple submissions, or none of the submissions. Selected submissions will receive an email of acceptance and next steps.
Please submit work to theroses.directors@gmail.com with "Entry: Arts + Human Rights Research Award" in the subject line.