Paint Me a Poem

[paintedpine-blog]

"Enraptured" by Rachel Lake

Prismacolor pen

2011

[paintedpine-blog]

"Red Lips" by Rachel Lake

Van Gogh Watercolor and Prismacolor pens

2013

[paintedpine-blog]

"KT Tunstall" by Rachel Lake

Prismacolor markers and pens

2012

[paintedpine-blog]

"Dancer" by Rachel Lake 

Van Gogh Watercolor and Prismacolor Pens

2011

[paintedpine-blog]

Louisa May Alcott Quote by Rachel Lake

[paintedpine-blog]

"Laura" by Rachel Lake 

Based off a Vampire Masquerade character :3

Van Gogh Watercolor and Prismacolor pens

2013

[paintedpine-blog]

"Underwater" by Rachel Lake 

Van Gogh Watercolor 

[paintedpine-blog]

The Garage Knelt beneath the staircase my skin hummed against the threat of discovery, the shock of her blonde hair, the string of his guitar, the damp silhouette beneath my thin cotton dress. Clouds of laughter and smoke swung between us, a circuit of pungent electricity rocked with soft delirium. She kissed my lips with curling halos of marijuana and strawberry, blew dandelion-seed wishes for a boy. II. The Carnival The arc of the Ferris Wheel winked above crowns of swaying pine, causing us to drift off track. It was an asylum from the empty road ahead of us, a catalyst for the drug, so we shoved crumpled dollars into fat hands of grey-haired ticket vendors, stumbled arm-in-arm across straw-thatched grounds, red-eyed, howling, lost in ourselves, rapturous, discomposed–limitless. III. The Launch We crawled inside the bench seat, a metal bar strapped across our laps, pinned to sweat-stained vinyl and faith in numbers. The engine lurched and the machine gyrated satellite shuttles into streams of brilliant red and canary shrieks. Our bodies were fused together in pools of marrow and spun-sugar. My brother and sister, we were reborn in mongrel gravity, the vicinity of three, rendered invincible by bastard youth.

Published poem in BurningWord by Rachel Lake 

http://burningword.com/2012/04/call-to-outlaws/

[paintedpine-blog]

"Traveler" by Rachel Lake 

Van Gogh Watercolor, Prismacolor 

April, 2013

[paintedpine-blog]

"Wolf" by Rachel Lake 

Van Gogh Watercolor and prismacolor pens 

[paintedpine-blog]

"Red Woman" by Rachel Lake 

Van Gogh Watercolor 

May 2013

Given away at a reading :)

[paintedpine-blog]

"Ray Bradbury's Psychologist" by Rachel Lake

The psychologist from Ray Bradbury's short story, "The Earth Men" from The Martian Chronicles. 

"He was a jovial, smiling man, if one could believe the mask he wore, for upon it was painted not one smile, but three."

Pearlescent Liquid Gold Acrylic, Van Gogh watercolor, and Prismacolor pens

[paintedpine-blog]

Two of my poems, "The Girl at the Public Pool" and "Specimen," are in the newest issue of The Bicycle Review!