Self-portrait Without A Bicycle Planes Trains & Automobiles It's time to get ready

It's time to get ready for the ball

Sing is story—the yearning for a narrative to help us understand ourselves

and stern Lady Klausine

no communications: a retreat into the desperation

Self-portrait Without A Bicycle Planes Trains & Automobiles It's time to get readyPainters use the term fugitive pigments to describe those colors most prone to fading after a brief exposure to light. In Self Portrait Without a Bicycle, poet and visual artist Jessica Hiemstra uses the idea of fugitive color to explore the grieving process; whether her subject is a lost grandparent, language, child, painting or cat, Hiemstra renders the fleetingness of life with fine, delicate strokes. The poet listens, tastes and remembers, senses