by Alex Nodopaka
For Sale At the Art Fair
Picasso’s Olga
tubes of paint
Buddha statues
the etching of Poe’s house
and the frame it is in
velvet scarves
lamps in Seagram’s
bottles & small worlds
in mason jars
watercolors
collages
truth
paintings of rabbits
abducted by aliens
the hours at the wheel
the clay beneath the skin
the crack in the porcelain
the shape of the nails
the tips and the moons
the plea in the terracotta
Anne Graue (she/her) is the author of Full and Plum-Colored Velvet, (Woodley Press, 2020) and Fig Tree in Winter (Dancing Girl Press, 2017). Her poetry has appeared in SWWIM Every Day, Verse Daily, Rivet Journal, Mom Egg Review, New Verse News, Into the Void, and in numerous print anthologies, including The Book of Donuts (Terrapin Books, 2017) and Coffee Poems (World Enough Writers, 2019). Her book reviews appear or are forthcoming in Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Adroit, Green Mountains Review, and The Kenyon Review. She is a poetry editor for The Westchester Review.
Alex Nodopaka originated in Kiyv, Ukraine. Speaks San Franciscan, Parisian, Kievan, Madridian & Muscovite. Mumbles in English & sings in tongues with Vodka. Studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Casablanca, Morocco. Full time author, visual artist in the USA but considers the past irrelevant and seeks new reincarnations.