Fissured Tongue Series

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by brice maiurro
​Fissured Tongue Series Vol VI  |  May 2025​

"Covidia" by Michael Thompson. Mixed media, 18 x 11 inches, 2021

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remember: a revolution
returns you where you
began. feet touching the
earth that birthed you.
welcome home. nothing
is the same.

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About the Author 
brice maiurro is a Colorado poet, workshop facilitator, storyteller and artist. He is the Editor-in-Chief of South Broadway Press. He has authored four collections of poetry, including The Heart is an Undertaker Bee, published by Middle Creek Publishing. His work has been published by Voice & Verse, Tiny Spoon, and Twenty Bellows. Themes of his work include human connection, ecology, and finding the divine in the mundane.

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About the Work
"As of late, I've been really enamored of short spiritual poems by poets, among others, like Rumi and Hafiz. I wrote this one on the light rail on the way to airport after reading some Rumi. I am realizing that many of my poems as of late reflect my journey into middle age (and parenthood as a companion to this middle chapter of my life). Beyond middle age, I think I'm old enough to see that social change is a spiral, rather than the linear climb I had hoped it was in my younger years. That being said, I believe in revolution and that it changes us and the world around us, and that inspired these words."

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About the Artist
Michael Thompson is a Chicago-based artist working in a variety of mediums including print-making, collage, kites, kinetic sculpture, memory jugs and fake postage stamps among them.
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​"The collage is inspired and informed through the isolation of the pandemic, they are a rather random assembly." www.michaelthompsonart.com

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