Presentation of Rorschach Ink Blots

By: Lisa Andrzejewski

Multimedia Slideshow

0001: blackened lobster

Raw

Lobster

crawls

out of

boiling

water

So hot it

freezes

black

clots

of

assumed

identity

onto

the

claws.

0002: tulips

Two lips

stretched

opposite

open

jawed

kiss

angled

bodies

try to

escape

lust-

fault

embrace

0003: Pandrogynous

Imagine the

perfect union

of two

imperfect souls

maybe one is

male

the other

female

but inside

The male is

a woman

and the

woman

is a man.

0004: umbilical candlelight

Fortress in the

distance

cords made of

entrails and the

things that make

mortals

flickered candle

flames

guide me the

entire way

maybe the

fortress

isn’t my

destination

0005: the devil

Tar-colored

nail polish

Ink.

His wings

bent

watch the

splotch-

shaped

figures

below

legs

crossed

In. wait.

0006: in-identical twin angels

Blood-sparked

feathers

Her left

hand

Engulfs

The right

hand of him.

Disfigured in

distant

uterine

aperture.

0007: mirror

faces contort

Tilt

in the other

direction

Phallic ink-let

manifestations

0008: prayer-bead hands

I shrug my

shoulders

“are those

angels

beneath

your

disproportion

-ate

hands

with

bullet

wounds?”

0009: anguished love

A couple

stands

Scorpion

tails

pointed

like

ballet

shoes

They are

both

male

The world

is

less

to them

now.

0010: celestial ship

inward-directed

spears

diced pears

outward

appearances

This ship will

dissociate

from reality

to unreality

where I

feel safe

again.

0011: guns

Two

pistols

aimed

At the

spot

between

Both

eyes.

Seminal

rifles

erupt

like an

embryo

and grow

into

something

horrific.

0012: the masquerade

Friends

dress like

hideous

butterflies

False antennae

stitched-

together wings

They’re only

destined to

die

like this.