Images of Snow, Words of Charcoal
Poems & Photographs by Mylene Hengen
The Queen
I’m not sure I believe
The dittydaisy of your tales
Your largelylittle rhetoric
Your screechy little voice.
I’m sure that you are false
And all that lies behind
Serried-sums of sequential failures
Charbroiled disaster.
I see your strength, I do
Your micromacro tension
Your powderperfect hope
The queen is dead. Long live the queen.
Golden Cage
Golden Cage.
There’s no reason but a multitude of muted voices
My internal dialogue is silenced by your charcoaled outline
Charcoal, never erasing, leaves a smudged reminder of what I lack
While I quietly miss things, places, words
Please don’t touch or feed the animals.
They aren’t acquainted to your expectations.
Snowfall. At 5 am the birds wake before you.
About these images
Athens mountains, Parnitha, Penteli, Korynthe, villages, hidden monestaries and the howling silent landscapes mark what most urban Greeks ignore and what, perhaps, informs the Greek rural life-ways. Rather than eliciting a personal response, a Barthes’s Punctum of sorts, of visual information, I’d rather like to capture the quiet spaces of internal places.
Mylene Hengen is a PhD student in Anthropology in Paris working on Indigenous arts in North America and is also an avid writer and photographer, inspired by capturing the non-seen and non-said. Any correspondance to the artist may be sent to the editors for forwarding.
Very powerful indeed. You must be writing with a razor blade! Lots of talent here.Keep on writing!
This work is so magnificent! I see a bit of Robert Frost’s ability to bring nature to life, coupled with a bit of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s connection to the soul. But all of this is accomplished with a unique freshness and style that offers a wonderful new contribution to the world of poetry. Thank you, Mylene Hengen, for giving us this gift.
Wonderful, and super photos. Keep it up!
Wow Mylene. I remember how exciting it feels to see your creative work in print! Frame it. Treasure it. Keep being inspired by it and the world and your being and most of all keep creating: writing, photographing and then sharing through publishing. Love you gal. Shirley
Mylène,
Tes photos et tes mots vont très bien ensemble. J’ai beaucoup apprécié. Bravo!
(In English): Your pictures and your words go so well together. Very enjoyable. Bravo!
Mylène, du merveilleux, du rêve, merci de faire de si belles choses. On te voit bientot ici? Love you
Simply Beautiful.