busy about youbut i don’t have time to paint you with letters. i am busy about you.frantic in bathrooms i am stopping the drip. sealing leaky faucetswith the monkey wrench that is my jaw. i am stopping the drip.you are an observation. more than fortune you are a hologram of ahologram of the edge of one drop of water. i am close to the insideof you. i am stopping the drip. the water i am putting to rescue willbe stored in a reservoir called your name is my body. you are myfavorite human woman. you live on the nocturnal side of the water.your fingers walk across a multi-colored globe & i am stopping thedrip. _________________________________________________________ Stephanie Slate is a photographer living and working in Philadelphia PA. Her B.F.A in photography was received from Pratt Institute in 2008. Slate uses alternative processes such as Platinum/Palladium printing and also Wet Plate Collodion. Her work mainly consists of images that explore the delicate boundaries between the repulsive and beautiful, while her newer work focuses on the wonders of boredom.  {www.lynslatephotography.com} M.G. Martin is the author of One For None (Ink) & the chapbook Fall Out Of Your Skin (Pangur Ban Party). His work has appeared in Word Riot, ZYZZYVA, Explosion Proof, PANK & >kill author, among others. A Pushcart Nominee, M.G. lives & writes in Brooklyn. Find him: here & here. —- Words with Pictures is a weekly two-part post that pairs photographers and writers. The first week, a writer is given a photograph to inspire the creation of a new piece of writing. The following week the photographer is given a piece of writing and responds with a new photographic piece. This series is curated by Conveyor Magazine Editor Dominica Paige.

busy about you

but i don’t have time to paint you with letters. i am busy about you.
frantic in bathrooms i am stopping the drip. sealing leaky faucets
with the monkey wrench that is my jaw. i am stopping the drip.
you are an observation. more than fortune you are a hologram of a
hologram of the edge of one drop of water. i am close to the inside
of you. i am stopping the drip. the water i am putting to rescue will
be stored in a reservoir called your name is my body. you are my
favorite human woman. you live on the nocturnal side of the water.
your fingers walk across a multi-colored globe & i am stopping the
drip.

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Stephanie Slate is a photographer living and working in Philadelphia PA. Her B.F.A in photography was received from Pratt Institute in 2008. Slate uses alternative processes such as Platinum/Palladium printing and also Wet Plate Collodion. Her work mainly consists of images that explore the delicate boundaries between the repulsive and beautiful, while her newer work focuses on the wonders of boredom.  {www.lynslatephotography.com}

M.G. Martin is the author of One For None (Ink) & the chapbook Fall Out Of Your Skin (Pangur Ban Party). His work has appeared in Word Riot, ZYZZYVA, Explosion Proof, PANK & >kill author, among others. A Pushcart Nominee, M.G. lives & writes in Brooklyn. Find him: here & here.

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Words with Pictures is a weekly two-part post that pairs photographers and writers. The first week, a writer is given a photograph to inspire the creation of a new piece of writing. The following week the photographer is given a piece of writing and responds with a new photographic piece. This series is curated by Conveyor Magazine Editor Dominica Paige.

Stephanie Slate & M.G. Martin { Part 1 } double dip recessionthere is a shortage of skin& i have taken my nakednessto the tattoo employment agencyit costs no money to take off the hairof my pubis & provides more workfor the agencythe agency appreciates ingenuity& awards me their highest honorit is called: untitled improvisationi think of the time before hairwhen i took you to the tree the nakedelders called: what planet is thiswhere we practiced the ninety ninedisciplines of nakedness & drewtattoos of tree sap with tree saponto our skinsi think of when you said:we aren’t falsely oblique in a real sensewe are really oblique in a false sensei am volunteering to bear your mistakeson my body i would do it for freebut i am a patriot during this recessioni accept the worth of skin but am shamedthat i can’t facsimile mine & distributethis flesh in these times of infirmityupon leaving i note:the agency is open monday through fridayduring normal business hours —- Stephanie Slate is a photographer living and working in Philadelphia PA. Her B.F.A in photography was received from Pratt Institute in 2008. Slate uses alternative processes such as Platinum/Palladium printing and also Wet Plate Collodion. Her work mainly consists of images that explore the delicate boundaries between the repulsive and beautiful, while her newer work focuses on the wonders of boredom.  {www.lynslatephotography.com} M.G. Martin is the author of One For None (Ink) & the chapbook Fall Out Of Your Skin (Pangur Ban Party). His work has appeared in Word Riot, ZYZZYVA, Explosion Proof, PANK & >kill author, among others. A Pushcart Nominee, M.G. lives & writes in Brooklyn. Find him: here & here. —- Words with Pictures is a weekly two-part post that pairs photographers and writers. The first week, a writer is given a photograph to inspire the creation of a new piece of writing. The following week the photographer is given a piece of writing and responds with a new photographic piece. This series is curated by Conveyor Magazine Editor Dominica Paige.

Stephanie Slate & M.G. Martin { Part 1 }

double dip recession

there is a shortage of skin
& i have taken my nakedness
to the tattoo employment agency

it costs no money to take off the hair
of my pubis & provides more work
for the agency

the agency appreciates ingenuity
& awards me their highest honor
it is called: untitled improvisation

i think of the time before hair
when i took you to the tree the naked
elders called: what planet is this

where we practiced the ninety nine
disciplines of nakedness & drew
tattoos of tree sap with tree sap
onto our skins

i think of when you said:
we aren’t falsely oblique in a real sense
we are really oblique in a false sense

i am volunteering to bear your mistakes
on my body i would do it for free
but i am a patriot during this recession

i accept the worth of skin but am shamed
that i can’t facsimile mine & distribute
this flesh in these times of infirmity

upon leaving i note:
the agency is open monday through friday
during normal business hours

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Stephanie Slate is a photographer living and working in Philadelphia PA. Her B.F.A in photography was received from Pratt Institute in 2008. Slate uses alternative processes such as Platinum/Palladium printing and also Wet Plate Collodion. Her work mainly consists of images that explore the delicate boundaries between the repulsive and beautiful, while her newer work focuses on the wonders of boredom.  {www.lynslatephotography.com}

M.G. Martin is the author of One For None (Ink) & the chapbook Fall Out Of Your Skin (Pangur Ban Party). His work has appeared in Word Riot, ZYZZYVA, Explosion Proof, PANK & >kill author, among others. A Pushcart Nominee, M.G. lives & writes in Brooklyn. Find him: here & here.

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Words with Pictures is a weekly two-part post that pairs photographers and writers. The first week, a writer is given a photograph to inspire the creation of a new piece of writing. The following week the photographer is given a piece of writing and responds with a new photographic piece. This series is curated by Conveyor Magazine Editor Dominica Paige.