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Ways of falling
A visual poem unearthed and reinvented, ‘Ways of falling’ by Sherry Zhang is “a poem is about the tension between the kind of tender familial love I grew up with as, the juxtaposition with it’s conditional performance with conservative filial piety expectations.”
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le lit
For FRAMED! Kyra Lawler gives us a poem through the sleepy, warm and comfortable eyes of two women tucked up in bed.
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Possum fur nipple warmers
Becca wrote this poem about the possum fur nipple drawer statue because omg look at it why wouldn’t you write something about it.
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Aubade
An attempt to re-romanticise the morning after. Or at least accept that ‘horny’ has a time limit which doesn’t always make for good epic poetry.
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Cows Over Vitebsk
This poem draws inspiration from not just one painting but Marc Chagall’s broader depictions of “anthropomorphised” animals, particularly cows, and the blurring of the human and non-human that they represent.”
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Three Witches
Originally written for The Dowse’s ‘Sisterly’ exhibition, Cadence Chung shares this work of witchiness with us. When Desire, Muse and Moonlight meet, magic is bound to happen.
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One must imagine Sisyphus shredded
From one of Casey Lucas’s favourite Romantic paintings this poem was birthed. It is about “looking at beautiful stuff, and subtly about my own frustrations with how both hiking and this painting are frequently used to convey MOTIVATIONAL FITNESS MESSAGES instead of just being about appreciating a beautiful thing.”
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girl crying
Giovanni Bragolin was prolific for his series of paintings of crying children and the urban legend of the cursed ‘crying boy’, but the print this poem by Jose Thomas is about isn’t that one, and maybe this print is actually cursed.
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From the Editor — A 2024 Reflection
Lead editor Damien Levi tries to sum up bad apple’s 2024 in retrospect, with a selection of ten pieces to read over the summer.
In a dream, you saw a way to survive, and you were filled with joy.
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