by Jill Gewirtz
Mise En Place
Mould these days into the shape of you, I want to
watch you fall through my arms like ginger through
the mixer, tell me about our faces charred by your broiling
venison heart, about a heart julienned, opened over and over again,
till it folded like a house of cards,
our bodies flambéd in a wine-shot sky
turning the afternoon into a prayer, our history pureed silk-smooth
beneath the skin, we can start
over, scallop our skins where salt has bled us dry, our nascent love
coddled just beneath tipping’s edge, I will blanch us till the colour
returns to our cheeks, I will bring us
back from the dead,
we will drizzle our lungs with buttered air, coat
our tongues with a confectioner’s kiss, till we are glazed in the
honeyed alcove of a promise, till we touch
and nothing turns to stone.
Sher Ting has lived in Singapore for most of her life before moving to Australia for medical school. She has work published/forthcoming in anthologies including Byline Legacies and Pages Penned In Pandemic, and literary magazines including Eunoia Review, Kissing Dynamite, Opia Mag and Interstellar Lit. She is currently an editor of The Aurora Journal and a Poetry Reader for Farside Review. She tweets at @sherttt and writes at downintheholocene.wordpress.com.
Jill Gewirtz ( she/ hers) is a native New Yorker who has been creating art, be it music, photography, jewelry making, since childhood. Currently, she is doing photo construction, sculptural work with photographs, collages, transfers on mirrors and image transparency film transfers. Her image from the Museum of the City of New York’s show ‘Rising Waters, Hurricane Sandy’ was recently accepted into the permanent collection at the Museum of the City of New York. Her photos have appeared in museum group shows at Marin Museum, Marietta Cobb, Masur, Katonah, Monmouth, Attleboro, Griffin and Hockaday and Cica Museums of Art and Berlin Biennial with the Julia Cameron Awards. Jessica Porter curated a small group show including Gewirtz and 2 painters, Joyce Pommer and Elise Freda at the Yard in New York. Most recently her work has been in multiple shows at Con Artist Collective in the Lower East Side.