stem
2023, MP4, 1080 x 1080, 0:14 seconds.
“stem” is the first micro poem from Petal Book, a three-part leider cycle written by Ana MarĂa Caballero for Refraction, inspired by Louise GlĂĽck’s The Wild Iris.
Taking Glück’s oracular, anthropomorphic voice as a point of entry, Caballero explores our relationship with mortality, with words, and with each other, in a series of pithy, cutting poems written in the language of flowers.
–
stem
because you cut
me
now
you have
to water
me
