Literature

queen of the night flower inspires a youtube debut 8 years in the making

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this video, unassuming and imperfect as it is, recorded on the front camera of my iphone, is a good faith deposit in the co-creative witching well of my wildest dreams: a world where i am a publicly prolific, multi-hyphenate, professional artist, embraced first and foremost by my own self, published + propelled forward into center stage by my own will and that of the audience + artists who resonate with my transmissions, eager to hold me accountable for never again hoarding my treasure chest of gifts…

Mother Tongue

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by Jana Astanov Was she the goddess of hell,some geomancyinvoked by boulders to birthher fertile soils’ rotational epochsblack gold thenraised from the prehistoric ashes?…

Her Garden of Delights

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by Jana Astanov nightlyshe’s the gardenof flashing eyesthe honeyed dew of the female organum her sex she’s a bird of paradiseher writing her nestwhere…

Spirit guides

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by Jana Astanov the literary womanhoodand the rhetoric of historiographytravel in my back pocketlike a bunny that hopsbetween the coffee shops of Amsterdam, French…