by Anthoula Lelekidis
Redacted memory #045 (censored in revolt)
I remember
the sound of […]
as it touched the inside
of my […].
You said my name
and something inside
tore like paper.
Soft.
Silent.
Irreversible.
I tried to keep it —
the scent,
the shape of that […]
morning:
light slicing across your shoulder
like a sealed manifesto.
But it slipped
through syntax.
Most of it
is gone.
Or buried
in directories I no longer access.
Only this fragment remains:
“I wish you had —”
The rest
was overwritten
by survival
and the silence of regimes.
Gordan Struić is a Croatian poet, musician, and lawyer whose work explores silence, memory, and the emotional residue of digital life. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Lana Turner, Ink Sweat & Tears, Stone Poetry Quarterly, Beyond Words, 34th Parallel, Voidspace, and others. He writes in both Croatian and English.
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Anthoula Lelekidis is a first-generation Greek-American lens-based artist who utilizes photography, printmaking, and image transfer in her practice. Her work navigates themes of personal memory, migration, and identity. With a deep interest in the archive, Lelekidis manipulates found family photographs to delve into the complexities of her ancestry, reimagining the blank spaces and uncovering lost connections to her past. Lelekidis holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Parsons School of Design and was awarded a Community Fellowship from the International Center of Photography. She was an artist-in-residence at the Skopelos Foundation of the Arts in Greece and earned a scholarship from the Students On Ice Organization to travel to photograph Antarctica. More recently, she was the recipient of the Manhattan Graphics Center’s printmaking scholarship in 2022 and NYFA’s Queens Art Fund: New Work Grant in 2023. She is a faculty member at the International Center of Photography and is based in Queens, New York.
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