explosion-affected person
Courtney Gustafson
I have not known
what it is to be handed
down in decades from
this explosionaffected person
saved
for something—that,
I also don't know. Check
the throats of babies
for burns. Look
for any identifying
marks: freckles, scars,
the pattern of a shirt
burnt into the skin.
Brian Donnelly adopts distortion, obstruction and
obliteration to render the familiar as anomalous in his
paintings. He explores the line between immutable and
ephemeral, in which presence is defined by absence,
success by failure, and life by death. Find him at
www.briandonnelly.org or on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter
@bbbriandonnelly and Tumblr: bbbriandonnelly.tumblr.com.
Courtney Gustafson writes and teaches in
Western Massachusetts. Her recent work
can be found in Rust + Moth, Maudlin
House, Dirty Chai, and elsewhere. Find her
on Twitter at @cgust.