Diane Gage, from Volume 3:1

A San Diego-based poet and artist, Diane Gage's work appeared recently in Facing the Change: Personal Encounters with Global Warming (2013). A selection of her Moon Haiku will appear later this year in a series of artist books by members of San Diego Book Arts. Gage was recently featured and interviewed at Blue Vortext Publishers.

Gage contribued two poems— "Picasso's Loaves" and "Bride Bared by Bird Bachelors"—in Volume 3:1. Below is an excerpt from the former:

His dark eyes focus

out the window, looking

toward the light source,

corners of his mouth

lifting slightly—maybe a whisper
of Giaconda in the lips?

Picasso and the Loaves by Robert Doisneau

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To read Gage's poems in full, flip to pages 38-40 in Synesthesia Literary Journal Volume 3:1!