Wallpaper
it takes a long time to stop a long list
agitating in my head to do to do
influence of the wishing I could fix
the not (quite) right of childhood
a grayish taupy wallpaper landscape
oppressively dim at least it wasn't
dismal fake colonial Currier & Ives
it was more vague, unoccupied
reflective of the old maples
lining the street and the blurry elm
at the corner of our lot
breaking up the slate sidewalk
before the elm died before the maples
were replaced by McDonald's
Art
Marie Carbone is a multi-disciplinary visual artist and musician. Her collage art has been exhibited at Berkeley Art Center and other Bay Area venues, in literary journals (VOLT, Five Fingers Review, Equinox, Milk Press, Wild Roof Journal), book covers, broadsides, artists' books, and projections for poetry readings and poets' theater performances. As a classical pianist, harpsichordist and music educator, her particular interest is the music of women composers. She has composed and performed sound tracks and soundscapes for film, theater, museum exhibitions, modern dance and ballet. She lives in Sausalito, CA.
Writing
Dale Going's new collection, The Beautiful Language of Our Disaster, is forthcoming from Codhill Press, as is For the Anniversaries of All Loving Kinds of Meetings, a chapbook from Albion Books. Her previous collections are The View They Arrange (Kelsey St. Press) and As/of the Whole (San Francisco State University). Recent poems appear in VOLT and New American Writing, among others. She lives New York. https://linktr.ee/dalegoing