>After the prose poem – “Blue Movie” by Joe Rosenblatt

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XIV

by Joe Rosenblatt

The body you think you own is not your own,

is a rented tuxedo where you shine

like nuptial ants inside some pleasure dome

lifting molecules above their mind….

Transporting glitter at your wedding

the self you think you own is your tuxedo

till shadows lower it by parasol

to a beach polluted with tadpoles and panama hats.

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This digital collage started out as a picture of poppies growing wild under the skytrain line near New Westminster. I liked the contrast of the orange flowers against the artificial green of the chain link fence.

I added the bumblebees after reading one of Joe Rosenblatt’s bee poems…and began a collaboration that spanned about 20 canvases. In some cases I started with one of Joe’s poems, and then Joe would encourage me to reverse the process and write a poem based on a visual image.

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(Taken mid-February 2007 with my new Pentax K100D. I particularly liked the crispness of the colours and shapes. The photo was imported into CorelDraw X3 and converted into a vector image, further simplifying the shapes and colours.)