Monoprints

Jean McDonough is an artist living in Woodstock, Illinois. She creates single-edition monoprints by painting on gelatin printing plates and then hand-pressing the image onto paper.

Love at the Border

Your hand on my arm

is a moon over a field

of wasted wheat:

I will rise from this death.

Ghost passing through walls

and wind through the year,

eye to eye you are mine,

a Pentecost blast.

Blood I am and cannot master,

office of skin and pity.

Without you I am

nothing but blood delta,

a manifest of holy

ghost and pine whisper.

Hold my vast ocean,

hand cupped to my ear.

There wave meets sand.

Day begins and ends.

I mark midnight mourning

you my lost love,

coast to country cost

this last day into deep

marine night, a turning tide

of birth and death.

Our moment becomes

the past.

Eye to eye we are one.

I war at our border.

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