Julie Farstad, She Wants Inside, 2010
Oil on clayboard
36 x 24"
What else does
an orphan-
girl
Have?
Whomever
I’m with, I
please. Brave
omma,
we’re outcasts.
An ajumma
is
selling cigarettes
next to the
place
we
were last
together. A ghost is
blessing my
cakes.
I’m
steaming my
misshapen songpyeon (송편)
over pine
needles.
This earthy, real
grief
was
our
beginning. As
an animal,
I need to be held. Beauty
is a feeling.