Tony Schanuel
Hunger
I shine out of the hollowed eye sockets
of famished children, overlooked
I sing the psalm of the starved,
who were living skeletons before
they could crawl, a mass of bones
made of the sun’s dimensions—
109 Earths lined up across their angular faces,
hands, mouths, gaping like featherless birds
Melissa Joplin Higley toured internationally as a sound engineer with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble and Disney’s The Lion King North American Tour. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and co-facilitates the Poetry Craft Collective (poets teaching poets, for free!). She lives in Mamaroneck, NY with her husband and son. melissajoplinhigley.com.
Tony Schanuel is an award-winning photographer and visual artist who has fused a professional background in photography, digital technology ,and painting and mark making to create fine art that transcends those mediums. His work has been featured in Digital Imaging Magazine, Computer Graphic Magazine, Wild Heart Journal, St. Louis Design Magazine, and is a featured artist in Cyber Palette and Extreme Graphics, two books showcasing digital artists and their work. He has exhibited at the Florence Biennale and his art is held in private and corporate collections including the Fine Arts Museum of Houston permanent photographic collection. http://www.schanuelphoto.com/.