At the beginning of 2022, I decided to start a project that integrated my love for poetry with my ink drawing practice. Each drawing is accompanied by the lines of poetry that inspired it and a link to the poem’s source.
climbing her shoulders. Images
rearrange her breasts, then the thin line
of clavicle highlighting her underwire
x: two satin cups, black straps.”
from “Portrait with Lorca” by Susan Rich
who is crowns of forsythia wearing a Land’s End overcoat.”
from “catalog of failed women whom I’ve loved or been or prayed for” by Indrani Sengupta
the weight
of the dead is the same
as the weight of the living.”
from “Lone Elk” by Stephanie Pippin
from “A Brief History of the War” by Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer
let my constancy compound. As fire metastasizes.
Sew me into my dark
and if a spark falls on my collar, cover it
with a needlework of charnel flowers.”
from “Doha Melt-Down Elegy” by Alice Fulton
of men, of gods, and I am a river
against you, drawn to current and eddy,
ready to make, to be unmade.”
from “Bedtime Story for the Bruised-Hearted” by Donika Kelly
from “Litany (Paulownia)” by Kasey Jueds
on my politeness, says to visualize which end
of the barrel you’d like to be on.
He owns a gun farm in Florida—
they grow in swamps like water chestnuts.”
from “On the Forces of Improvisation Under the Gun Law” by Maya C. Popa
in the bag of the universe and climb out.”
from “When We Make Lifelines, the Universe Breathes a Little Easier” by Kelli Russell Agodon
Danielle Weeks 