“A Questioning Nature”
Lily Rose Kosmicki
Artist Statement: My poems are collage pieces, because I use phrases, experiences, sentiments repurposed from childhood diaries and notebooks. New meaning is arranged by recomposing these fragments, the poems are about love, which is the basis for both justice and upheaval.
What are you thinking about?
Weeping willows
in a time before this
when trees didn't cry
or have names for that matter
What if the flowers
start growing back into the ground?
Towards the core
where another sun is hiding
roots hanging out into the dark air
What are you thinking about?
Plants might need to evolve
eyes for us to begin to
care about them more
so they can give us
judging glances
What if we added one new letter to the alphabet?
Just for the sake of
how many new words
we could make
What are you thinking about?
If old dirt is the skin of the earth,
mud is the blood,
and worms run through it
like veins.
Results vary. But who’s counting?
What are you thinking about?
Nihilism
Was it ever any different in human history?
What are you thinking about?
Topiaries
If they would end up
in neat sensible shapes
without shears,
but the shears seem to be the point
Lily Rose Kosmicki is a person, beekeeper, and librarian at the public library and by night she is a collector of dreams. Her zine Dream Zine won a Broken Pencil Zine Award for Best Art Zine 2018. Her work appears in The Raw Art Review, Bombay Gin, Interim, Seisma Magazine, and elsewhere. Her chapbook The Eyelash Atlas is forthcoming from Francis House.