‘Franken Eden’, ‘A Post-It Note Found On Your Self-Worth’ & ‘Don’t Do It (Or Leave Her on Read)’

Jack Bordnick's sculptures and photography incorporate surrealistic, mythological and magical imagery often with whimsical overtones — aimed at provoking our experiences and self reflections. Aiming to unbalance our rational minds, the predominant imagery deals mostly with facial expressions of both living and “non-living” beings, and things that speak to us in their own languages. They are mixed media assemblages that have been assembled,
disassembled and reassembled, becoming abstractions unto themselves

Franken Eden

Maybe Mary Shelley
was thinking of Eden
when she scared herself
and the rest of us
half to death
with her novel.

A woman taken from a man’s rib,
fed with apples,
taunted by snakes,
told she will never
be anything but cursed.

Yeah, babe,
I see the parallels.

A Post-It Note Found On Your Self-Worth

I am a library, not a liability,
Though I am done explaining and
Justifying.
I’m done weighing and measuring.
I’m through arguing and
Vilifying.
Just live your fucking life
And I’ll live mine.
I’m not even that mad at you.

Don’t Do It (Or Leave Her on Read)

Reading is Sacred work.
Do not interrupt a reader
Don’t wake her from the dream
With anything less than
An emergency.

Don’t tell her the trivial
When she sips deeply
Of words, of languages.
She will not welcome it.

She might hiss at you.

Drema Drudge is an award-winning novelist and author of several chapbooks-in-progress, including Look, I Built a Cathedral. Her poetry blends emotional candor with tenderness and wit. She has an MFA from the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing, and her work has appeared in Spectrum and The Louisville Review and others. www.dremadrudge.com