Monika Bowman Bell
Monika Bowman Bell : In your sleep by black sheet curtains hung with tacks
Monika Bowman uses imagery of the natural world to reflect riddles of the human mind within her visual, performative, musical and written works. She has showcased and performed all over Dallas since 2009. Camping, meditation, ocean waves on warm days, and writing achy songs for her band, Mad Mother Goblin, gives her the ultimate joy. Her story, Born Hearts Upside Down has been published by HerStry Blog. @madmothergoblin | monivisual.com
in your sleep by black sheet curtains hung with tacks
My breasts are
dunes of sand
relaxed and moving
wild is the wind on
horizon’s heated chorus
I sing, cling to me
oasis, you glisten
lowly rambling for
strike of boons
infinite span of desert miles
shifting mountain ranges
paths afloat, stifled
swollen forces of
the dunes groan in
trepidation of parting
wavering voices
defensive banshees
violent humming sears
consumed and consuming
Surrounding and surrounded
one by one and all at once
swift rippling waves
a dry ocean, a top
once the bottom
static limbs beneath
rumbling blankets
await atomic effleurage
coiled drums shatter
nourished hearts
a mirage of plenty
trickling shivers
down the incline
keening within
release with solicitude
I fly away scathed
grain by grain
like dew to foggy vapor.
