‘Dionaea's Muscipula’ & ‘The Slumber of a King’
Edward Michael Supranowicz is the grandson of Irish and Russian/Ukrainian immigrants. He grew up on a small farm in Appalachia. He has a grad background in painting and printmaking. Some of his artwork has recently or will soon appear in Fish Food, Streetlight, Another Chicago Magazine, Door Is A Jar, The Phoenix, and The Harvard Advocate. Edward is also a published poet.
Dionaea’s Muscipula
Gifts from high: Ray’s serene shine.
Purple paints the aether’s hue.
Gold dusts the zephyr; they pine.
Bees create their divine dew.
Reared away, in the dark glade.
A longing plant ties her braids,
Climbs, and chokes the white trellis.
Her quest, perhaps, too jealous…
She makes her way to the hive.
Amber dew: Her agony.
Sweetness, for her, a past tomb.
Bees her new, adopted feast.
Scaling this trellis we find,
A lost hungry progeny:
Made to feast on those who sting,
With venom’s tranquility.
She seeks, she never sleeps, she’s-
Dionaea, her unknown name;
Muscipula: her known claim.
Victims or Bees - her fame.
In perceiving, what must we tame?
Dionaea, she drools, she feeds.
The Slumber of a King
Winter’s white hue recedes the boy’s domain.
The meadow swelled with the music of birds;
Their cries trickled from the branches.
The melted frost dripped from the canopy-
beneath the gentle harmony,
a boy’s frail body leans to an oak tree.
His head, propped up by his sunken chest.
The melted frost pit-patted on his crown,
Wearily held beneath his sullen, sallow face.
Hazel, green gems shrinks his pupils.
Life exhaled from his lips.
A deep sonorous bass.
A boom from his chest.
The crescendo that silences.
His crown crashed into the earth.
A pair of robins emerged from the oak tree. They danced in the orange sky.
Their waltz reflected in his eyes.
Spring hums her song.
E.L. Means is an aspiring psychoanalyst, pursuing a Master's degree in Marriage & Family Therapy at the University of Southern California. He seeks to enrich his understanding of the human experience beyond the confines of psychological nomenclature. Through his poetry and archetypal allegories, he seeks to inspire a connection to others through excavating the depths of the self.
