This series of poems + projected image was created for the "Flotsam and Jetsam" show at the Reconstruction Room reading series, a monthly themed reading and performance series in Chicago (www.recroomers.com).

e.t.

e.t. resides in Chicago where she is a writer, teacher, and community arts organizer. Regarding the series of poems published in nanomajority, she writes: I have always been oddly thrilled when walking around the city and coming upon a piece of discarded clothing unexpectedly — the baby mitten on a fencepost, the dirty khakis crumpled in an alley, the flattened tube sock in the cross walk, the solitary flip flop outside the 7-11. The abandoned articles make me think of the apocalypse — of alien abductions and sinister transgressions; they simultaneously frighten me and fill me with wonder. I think, "What happened to the objects' owners? Who are they and why did they leave this clothing behind?" It is this line of thought that compelled me to ask my photog pal to wander the city and snap some pictures of lost/abandoned apparel. I used the pics and my hypotheses about the objects in the pics to inspire the poems here.

Michael Bolsinga

When Michael Bolsinga is not prowling the alleys with his camera, he is the resident photographer for the Reconstruction Room reading series and The Hermit Arts Company. His photography and paintings have also been shown in multiple venues, including the Chicago Cultural Center and Around the Coyote Arts Festival. He presently resides in Chicago. His website is www.bolsingatron.com.