THREE THINGS by ELLEN HARROLD
The Story of Why I Was Asked to Leave the Peach Farm
A cacophony of endless slurping,
Snuffling like a pig on ket
Oh, how I snarled at that poor man,
Because for a brief second
I was a dragon prostrate on gold
rather than some deranged woman
hunched over a wave of peaches crashing against my face.
An Exceptionally Small Octopus
Spider Crab Raging Against Aquarium Equipment
Ellen Harrold (she/her) is an artist and writer focused on the human connection to science and nature. A core aspect of her practice is using painting, drawing, text, and textiles to explore how physics and ecology are understood through abstraction in the form of art and storytelling. She has recently published art pieces in The Storms Journal, Honeyguide Literary, and Orion. She has also published poetry across a variety of magazines and collections such as Shearsman, Die Leere Mitte, New Note Poetry, and Skylight 47 She has also published her first book, “Aesthetics and Conventions of Medical Art,” with Boom Graduates.