“revolve this landscape
encased by pulverized petals the stories
round the wood
in areola waves”
This audio recording of “Rings of Pink, Enheduanna” by Nicole Miyashiro from Vol. 32:1 of CALYX Journal was inspired by Diane Samuels’ art piece, “Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas/Testimony Against Gertrude Stein”, 2011 (ink on handmade paper, coated in pulverized rose petals). Buy Vol 32:1 here.
Nicole Miyashiro works with the PA Center for the Book at Penn State, where she continues to develop Words of Art, an online collection of ekphrastic audio poems. Her poetry and fiction have been published in The Hudson Review, RHINO, the Nasty Women Poets anthology (Lost Horse Press), Eckleburg Review, and elsewhere. She lives in State College, PA.