{"id":5159,"date":"2025-03-25T15:19:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T15:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rochelleowens.net\/new\/?page_id=5159"},"modified":"2025-03-25T15:19:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T15:19:33","slug":"hermaphropoetics-ice-water","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rochelleowens.net\/new\/index.php\/hermaphropoetics-ice-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Hermaphropoetics\/Ice Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1742914303900{margin-top: 25px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column]<style>.vcex-heading.vcex_6a21db0a9ead7{color:#000000;font-size:24px;font-weight:700;}<\/style><h1 class=\"vcex-heading vcex-heading-plain vcex-module wpex-text-balance wpex-heading wpex-text-2xl wpex-mb-0 vcex_6a21db0a9ead7\"><span class=\"vcex-heading-inner wpex-inline-block\">Hermaphropoetics \/ Ice Water<\/span><\/h1>[vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221; bottom_margin=&#8221;30px&#8221; color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; font_size=&#8221;14px&#8221;]A master photographer<br \/>\nfocusing her lens<br \/>\na figure trussed and lying down<\/p>\n<p>A glass of ice water sparkles<br \/>\nand shines under jagged trees<br \/>\nblinking in and out<\/p>\n<p>A strange rain<br \/>\nvertical\/horizontal altering perception<br \/>\na camera flash an image<\/p>\n<p>A round white tent<br \/>\na little girl in harem pants<br \/>\nfickle he saunters by<\/p>\n<p>Her elbows winging out moving<br \/>\nin circles blowing kisses<br \/>\nhis long pale eyelashes<\/p>\n<p>And gazes upwards smiling<br \/>\nbeautiful the face of a child<br \/>\nteasing femme\/homme<\/p>\n<p>Her legs collapsing under him<br \/>\nhis hands and feet dangling<br \/>\nout of the frame<\/p>\n<p>An asymmetrical form<br \/>\nvertical\/horizontal an impure creation<br \/>\nspiritual\/carnal<\/p>\n<p>The physical poetic the flesh of the apple<br \/>\nbeautiful the hermaphrodite<br \/>\nin the concrete space<\/p>\n<p>A white screen video<br \/>\naudio recordings a black vinyl mask<br \/>\nthe hermaphrodite peeling almonds<\/p>\n<p>A master photographer<br \/>\nnodding his head clapping her hands<br \/>\nmoving in circles closer closer<\/p>\n<p>Molecular the creeping tension<br \/>\nthe cheekbones sharp-edged as a cube<br \/>\nearlobes jingling little bells<\/p>\n<p>The harelip in light and shadow.<br \/>\nsmelling tasting cinnamon honey<br \/>\nhis tongue licking a clot of blood<\/p>\n<p>Her throat a prolonged<br \/>\nmuscular twitch the throat of a deaf mute<br \/>\nswallowing colors<\/p>\n<p>Dark blue the smell of his breath<br \/>\nthe flavor of her sweat seawater<br \/>\na hermaphrodite captured after the siege<\/p>\n<p>Out of the mists the mists of Cumae<br \/>\na boy warrior<br \/>\nhis head curiously small<\/p>\n<p>Her shape insectoid from nose to tail<br \/>\nwearing body paint<br \/>\nstripes of black on his cheeks<\/p>\n<p>A pollock-like rhythm<br \/>\nspirals of color dripping multiple hues<br \/>\nfalling drops 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