Donate in honor of SHARING A SAFER SPACE
ISSUE NO. 11: SHARED SPACES
June 2022
This issue of Pearl Press features work from:
Julie Fowells
Josephine Binder
Lakshan Dharmapriya
László Gábor Belicza
Molly Peters
Karen Arredondo
Frank Marshal
Lucie March
Evelyn Freja
Kara Birnbaum + Brennan Corcoran
Temi Coker
Beverly Frydman
Bobby Miller
Jacob Church
Cover image: Lakshan Dharmapriya
Curated by: Delilah Twersky
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Couch Yard: DMT
Convoyage and Other series: Judith Hornbogen
Fireworks #37: Julie Fowells
Rummel Moments: Josephine Binder
Mia and Lakus: Josephine Binder
Work in Progress: Lakshan Dharmapriya
the sky above Kóspallag series: László Gábor Belicza
Work in Progress: Lakshan Dharmapriya
Short Point: Molly Peters
SOLD.
You feel like a home
The moon sold me keys for.
The front yard sign flashing reflected moonlight saying
Take this on
You’re ready-
Sold.
In the way timing reveals the simple things.
You feel like my safe space
Where I can fall asleep
I felt numb from the cold for so long before inhabiting these walls.
Now kept warm-
Because the heat we generate is enough to entice volcanoes to wake,
breathing motion to the waves with the blood moon-
magma spews
everything that bursts out/comes by you.
We have to be careful not to destroy our world around us.
Careful because
This ocean I see in your eyes
Wets dry towels
From swimming-
In these dreams feeling the greatest pleasures felt- I’m floating. Lace held walls in place-covered seams
shifting with rhythmic movement-marking/carving the floor-
we would finish together.
Investing in ‘this thing’-the best this world has to offer me.
marks an 8.7 inch n a scale For the 7th or 8th time.
Tests my old foundations, leveled up-
I’m satisfied by how you move.
It’s best if I move with you.
I’m raised up two steps to meet your lips with every kiss I’m more at home than I have ever been.
Unpacking these boxes is the only thing I want to do.
I moved towards a more balanced plan.
I am/have laid out before him.
Karen Arredondo
Untitled: Frank Marshal
Untitled: Lucie March
Untitled: Lucie March
Convoyage and Other series: Judith Hornbogen
The Primordial Nature of the God: Kara Birnbaum + Brennan Corcoran
Untitled: Evelyn Freja
Untitled: Evelyn Freja
Mountains Blue: DMT
A STREET CAT NAMED FEVER
my fever lives in my head
snugly
a warm cat curled up
around my brain purring until i reach for the medicine
to detangle the sharp claw
caught in my matter
as my body shakes and shivers
a lover’s blush covering
every inch
of my body, that thinks it is running
restless beneath
sweat soiled sheets
and misplaced hope
the heat
popped into a chill
just moments later -
icy, icy
i am icy, as the cat runs away looking to catch
someone else’s mind, and rest
DMT
Untitled: Lucie March
From Earth: DMT
Work in Progress: Lakshan Dharmapriya
Work in Progress: Lakshan Dharmapriya
the sky above Kóspallag series: László Gábor Belicza
TemixNigeria: Temi Coker
TemixNigeria: Temi Coker
TemixNigeria: Temi Coker
Work in Progress: Lakshan Dharmapriya
The Primordial Nature of the God: Kara Birnbaum + Brennan Corcoran
Cabin Bedroom: Molly Peters
Untitled: Evelyn Freja
Convoyage and Other series: Judith Hornbogen
Untitled: Evelyn Freja
TemixNigeria: Temi Coker
TemixNigeria: Temi Coker
WE RIDE IN SMOKE
FILLED CARS WITH THE
WINDOWS ROLLED UP
Janis Joplin sits next to me
on the back seat of my father’s Pontiac,
she doesn’t wear a seatbelt.
She comes through the radio
when my father lights a Lucky Strike,
Janis really likes the smoke.
She looks like the hippies
who make out in Spencer Gifts,
long hair tangled, smells like leaves
ripped jeans in the knees, bare feet
granny glasses, Dad says she looks
like she crawled out of a garbage can.
He doesn’t see her like
I do even with my eyes closed.
She scares me, she’s angry.
Choke down cigarette fug
afraid I’ll throw up, but I know
a woman can be tough.
She screams in my ear.
Wrap arms over my heart,
Janis wants a piece of it.
Roll down the window
enough so Janis floats free
and I let myself breathe.
Beverly Frydman
Untitled: Evelyn Freja
Untitled: Bobby Miller
Winter Park: Julie Fowells
Untitled. Toledo, Ohio: Jacob Church
Untitled: Frank Marshal
TemixNigeria: Temi Coker
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Delilah Twersky
Pearl Press
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