MARCH PLAYLIST
We are pleased and proud to present the first Gallery 29 Playlist, a multi-arts mashup centered on monthly theme. Our inaugural MARCH PLAYLIST on the theme of In Pursuit features poetry by Amber Irish, a play by Collin I. Hood, fiber art by Sara Rockinger, and graphic art by Shane Rodriguez.
Enjoy!
My Sister’s Horse | Persistence of Memory Dresses
By Sara Rockinger
The Magnolia | Persistence of Memory Dresses
By Sara Rockinger
to fetishists (to hunters)
to the man
who knows he is an
asian fetishist but
knows less that
he is a hunter:
when you tell
me that asian
women are
your "thing"
i don’t get upset,
even when you
tell me the
unsolicited details of
your harajuku- sailor-moon-costumed
geisha-trained
hello kitty-sweet
always-had-that-yellow-fever
fantasy
because i'm too
busy imagining
you on top of me
the way hunters
pose on bengal
tiger rugs,
like you think
i am nothing
more than a
trophy of skin,
my mouth
an open invitation
for the jawbreaker in you
to pry apart and cut
into an enduring smile,
the emptied
remains of a
beast waiting to
be filled, with glass
eyes fixated on you
unblinking
while your
amateur taxidermist
hands push elbow deep
inside, removing all the stuff men
like you throw into the garbage
the guts and the brain and the heart
trying sloppily to replace it with
something meant to
keep me immobile
and quiet, a split bellied
souvenir your wipe your
muddy feet on when you
have returned from another
gruesome hunt.
so to you, hunter,
to you, fetishist,
you empty man with
greedy hands,
when you tell me
that asian women
are your “thing”
i don’t get upset. i don’t get
anything.
because you are right:
i am nothing
for you.
i am no fever for you
to break, no cartoon fantasy
come to life, no game
big or small
for you to hunt
and i am no
empty beast
waiting to serve the pretty
purpose of lying down with
a forced smile
in your bed
or underfoot.
i am no
thing.
-by Amber Irish
By Shane Rodriguez
By Shane Rodriguez
By Shane Rodriguez