Fanny Allié, Passage, 2020, mixed media on fabric, 33.75in x 29.5in.
Welcome to the Mourning Tour through
the Hanging Gardens of Grief
by Cali Kopczick
Thank you for registeringcardinalscardinalsfor this conversation of moving shadows.
Take a trot in the past, which is thatcardinalscardinalssame fifteen minutescardinalscardinalsof family fun.
We haven’t any greenish-black dawn left.cardinalscardinalsNo evening. We’re really very sorry. (Starry.)
We haven’t been the greatestcardinalsday to live through.cardinalsJimmy Dean in the morning,
coming home to a turkey bone in every soup pot,cardinalscardinalscardinalssure.
Not to mention the meatcardinalscardinalscardinalscardinalsor the torn anatomy.
Not a drumstick left to din over,cardinalscardinalscardinalscardinalsno fattened breasts.
Your appetites are fiercest where the sky gives out,cardinalscardinalswhich is to say winter.
The people in your lifecardinalscardinalsmake the morning. Recently, they have made very little.
You’ve given them such long nights.cardinalsWearing sunglasses, they walk past
in the heated skyways pretendingcardinalsthey don’t know you.
The trail parking lot.cardinalsThe Backseat of Feeling Bad.
The Museum of Historycardinalscardinalsand Industry. Gifted,
this portrait of small threads on paper.cardinalscardinalsSomeone sewed the cold shut
like they knew you didn’t come with a seam ripper.cardinalscardinalscardinalsBibs will be available
for the community feast.cardinalscardinalscardinalscardinalsYou give so muchcardinalsyou
(deservedly) want,cardinalscardinalsplease remembercardinalsthis trail is limited.
Right now it feels morecardinalslike a circle withincardinalscardinalsthe cabin.
This is a statecardinalscardinalsthat allows the entrancecardinalscardinalsof truly the last thing.
We sell urgency.cardinalscardinalsHang it like a park passcardinalson your rearview mirror.
Published October 18th, 2020
Cali Kopczick is a writer, editor, and marketer based in Seattle, Washington. She is the programming coordinator for Moss Literary Magazine and the production manager and story editor of the documentary Where the House Was, currently touring film festivals. Her writing is out with The Offing, The Birds We Piled Loosely, Bone Bouquet, and Crab Creek Review, among others.
Fanny Allié is an artist based in New York City. Born in Montpellier, France, Allié received a degree in Performing Arts from Paul Valéry University, and an MA in Visual Arts from Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie, (National School of Photography) in Arles. Frequently exhibiting in New York City and France, Allié’s work has also been featured in New York Magazine, The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Gothamist, Marie Claire, Artspace Magazine, Artnet, and Artnews, among others. Allié is currently an artist in residence at Dieu Donné in Brooklyn, and is part of the exhibit Music For The End Of Time at Owen James Gallery until the 21st of November.
Her work can be viewed at: http://fannyallie.com/index.html