Portrait of dana’s mother holding dana, overimposed on her personal mature self. Path, photograph, and collage by dana (created for Ramon Monegal Monbloom)
If I might carve
A tree hole
Within the chest of my beloveds
I’d crawl in it
And sit in it,
Me in them
And the beloved in me,
Like a household
Of Matrioshkas. Wednesday, Mar 5 by dana. A part of “Songs for Their Sleep”, a poetry journal of being pregnant)
Wildflowers. Picture by Laura Evans with remedy by dana
V.
Parascheva was quick, loud, and inattentive to what village protocol demanded of her. Left pregnant on the point of WWII, she birthed and raised her daughter, Anastasia, and not using a fuss, and in need of a husband drafted to the entrance line (who was rising, as an escapee from a prisoner camp in Odessa, his personal storyline of infinite randomness). A lot is to not be stated about Parascheva; neither was she handsomer or handier than others.
What she was, although, was happier, as if the solar all the time shone brighter upon her humble hut. Animals thrived round her; strangers misplaced discovered shelter along with her; her backyard (in identify solely, as she by no means tended it) exploded with blooms like she was some outdated, completely satisfied which pushing life out of all the pieces she touched.
Anastasia. Picture remedy by dana
IV
Anastasia was married very younger and located herself mothering Cornelia quickly after. Her family—her area, ringing with the rhythms of her stitching machine and buzz of bees cradling the outdated lilac timber. Tied to the bottom however elevated by means of essentially the most random penchant for naive rhyming, Anastasia saved her hair finished and her backyard actual, blooms pushing appropriately by means of the carefully-worked soil, wholesome and correct and every realizing its place.
Element of digital interactive poetry artwork by J.Piringer. Picture remedy by dana
III
Cornelia, not like her lineage, lives in a city, the place water is working, logopedy is a factor, and blooming occurs on windowsills many toes within the air. Inside cement bins atop each other, she lovingly brings phrases to kids who don’t have them, very similar to she did along with her personal Dana way back: again bent, consideration intent, and eyes beaming with a lot mild it pushes by means of and breaks the silence.
Ramon Monegal Monbloom. Picture and remedy by dana
As a feminine, you’re born with all of the eggs you’ll ever have- ought to a number of be destined to turn into one other, they’ll have been in you since earlier than you have been born. Each grandmother, thus, is carrying their future grandchildren whereas they’re pregnant, bridging time in womanhood like a steady track of collective reminiscence.
Raymon Monegal Monbloom, too, is a bridge. In-built arches sprung throughout perfumery eras and ranges of depths, it manages to be directly classical and recent, grandiose however easy, intimate however common. The primary nostril is extremely fragrant, just like the perfumey infusion of a day of backyard work: oily herbs, slight sweat, fleshy flowers. What follows is the smoothest transition into (heat) earthiness, smoky, fulfilling, and resolved, which supplies manner, additional nonetheless, to an enveloping, atemporal, nearly animalic creaminess. And there it stays: life pressure in all its glory, reigned by a tuberose overlaying all the pieces tuberose in the identical manner my she-tribe took phrases from naive rhyming all the best way to CaFleureBon.
official notes: labdanum, tuberose, musk, patchouli, oud, ylang, jasmine, osmanthus, neroli, cedar
different perceived notes: vetiver, cumin, ambergris, suede, tonka, grime, vanilla, tar
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–dana sandu, Contributor
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