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State of Change

Jesica Carson Davis
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​A dramatic temperature drop                                                                                            can cause, precipitate
    change in state.                                                                                               The dishwasher in our garage
       still thick with remnants                                                                                        hauled Chicago water
          haunting its guts.                                                                               The memory of how hard it is
                     to navigate                                                                                                         moving
               to a country                                                                                             where you don't know 
                 the language, how to swim                                                                             in it. We learn
                   parameters                                                                                                    for interaction
                     acceptable behavior                                                                           social constraints
                       through observation                                                                       hints picked up
                         as course correction.                                                          A hard suggestion. 
                            I make to-do lists                                                    action and consequence
                              desire a strikethrough.                               The transported dishwasher
                               sits atop of this week's list:                                               call someone
                                  to install, connect                                                    tubes and pipes
                                    hope that nothing cracked                                             in cross-
                                      transit 's drive                                               plus days outside
                                        in a winter waiting place.                   They say it'll snow 
                                           tonight                                                                     I open 
                                             my mouth                                             for the future
                                                ice to melt                                          into present
                                                  water                                                       to cross 
                                                     my tongue.                                  It is done.
                                                        This is                                   to become.

Jesica Carson Davis's work has appeared in The Laurel Review, Storm Cellar, Stoneboat, Zone 3, Columbia Poetry Review, and other places. She studied poetry at the University of Illinois, worked as a typesetter for the University of Chicago Press, and was the final Alice Maxine Bowie Fellow at Lighthouse Writers Workshop. She's currently working on several manuscripts of poetry and an ongoing project making poemboxes, which sculpturally interpret her words. Jesica lives in Denver, where she works remotely as a technical writer for a software company. Find more at jesicacarsondavis.net.
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About the work: “
Much of my current work deals with the act of becoming, beginning again, wanting to know, searching for the source of a metaphorical glowing. Mouths opening, with focus on that action over what might be said. When I told my husband I wrote a poem about the dishwasher, but that it wasn’t actually about the dishwasher, he said “Honey, it’s never about the dishwasher.”” 

The Art
Picture“Fel Beetle” by Stefan Kellar. Pen and ink. 11”x14”. 2018
Stefan Kellar is a 25-year old artist working out of Fayetteville, AR. His work displays a style reminiscent of messy notebook doodles with a symmetrical balance. Kellar prefers to create mixed media drawings reflecting the state of the artist, ecology, entomology, and how it all coincides. He primarily focuses on consciousness and pressing works that reflect the state of mind. Each insect that Kellar incorporates demonstrates his detailed research of their life cycles, folklore/myths, and contributions to our everyday lives. Indulging in under-appreciated aspects of life, his interpretation reveals that consideration for the beauty that surrounds us is obscured. His idea of what diverts us entails surface-level desires like materialism and consumerism, by which Kellar believes most of today’s society lives. He invites you to step into his beautifully eerie, yet comforting work that exposes our anxieties and fears and speaks to our personal struggles and progress.
​About the art: “While many are obsessed with mystical beings in fantasy stories (eg. Chimeras, Minotaurs, etc.), I think of the unappreciated beings— the insects.  I am deeply in love with insects and am a striving self-proclaimed entomologist. Insects and the occult have always fascinated me and in this work, I combined the two. I   researched folklore and origins of insects before combining them to create things such as Fel-Beetle. 
This painting is from my project titled “The Codex of Occult Insects” in which I describe through art many insects of another world. 
Throughout the project, I created life cycles of  a mythological insect, that does not exist but in my imagination.  
My intent is to create different occult insects, their life cycles, and writing about each of the insects as if you were looking at a science book.
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