Ana Mara Caballero - stem

stem 

2023, MP4, 1080 x 1080, 0:14 seconds.

stem is the first micro poem from Petal Book, a three-part leider cycle written by Ana Mara Caballero for Refraction, inspired by Louise Glcks The Wild Iris.

Taking Glcks oracular, anthropomorphic voice as a point of entry, Caballero explores our relationship with mortality, with words, and with each other, in a series of pithy, cutting poems written in the language of flowers. 





stem

because you cut 
me
 
now
you have 
 
to water 
me 
