from declivities
Irene Koronas
red bird
rhombus stone
squares semihump
reeks pencil dots
dilution’s beak
codes hive
chaste to incise
silk doko
sinoper
ink lender
marks the casserole
luting clay
shapes porringer
over half bean bone
hematite and bagdad indigo
calcine tempers
cennini
hesychast
orpiment quarts
fresco
arzica round
prismatic host
girdles that appetite
turnsole
hazard even
a gay alloy
contour ends
sylphide
make out
snare
ceiling
the extreme
mage
petrified
843 a.d.
toy temple
palatable
without balance
privilege
coexist
context
haunt
low ebb
pregnant
upside
Irene Koronas is the author of 9 collections of poetry and collaborative writing including ninth iota (The Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2017), Codify (Éditions du Cygne, 2017), heshe egregore (with Daniel Y. Harris, Éditions du Cygne, 2016), Turtle Grass (Muddy River Books, 2014) and Emily Dickinson (Propaganda Press, 2010). Some of her poetry, experimental writing and visual arts have been published in Clarion, Counterexample Poetics, Divine Dirt, E·ratio, experiential-experimental-literature, The Licentiam, Lynx, Lummox, Of\with, Pop Art, Right Hand Pointing, Presa, The Seventh Quarry Magazine, Spreadhead, Stride and The Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art. She is an internationally acclaimed visual and digital artist, having exhibited her visual art at the Tokyo Art Museum Japan, the Henri IV Gallery, the Ponce Art Gallery, Gallery at Bentley College and the M & M Gallery. She is the Managing Editor and Co-Founder of X-Peri and Co-Director of the X-Peri Series.
