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Krista Franklin
 Krista
Franklin is a poet and visual artist from
Dayton, OH who currently lives and works in
Chicago. Her poetry and mixed medium collages
have been published in lifestyle and literary
journals such as Nocturnes, RATTLE,
Indiana Review, Ecotone, Clam
and Callaloo, in the anthology
Gathering Ground, and in the webzines
MiPOesias.com
and CultureServe.net. Her visual
art has been featured on the covers of
award-winning books, and exhibited nationally in
solo and group exhibitions. Franklin is a Cave
Canem Fellow, a co-founder of Tres Colony, an
artist collective, and 2nd Sun Salon,
a community meeting space for writers, visual
and performance artists, musicians and scholars.
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On the Blk Hand Side
The films catered to the crusty parts,
the detritus, layer peeled back and laid
flat to nothing but shiftless,
illiterates. Engines built to last
on ball courts, in boudoirs, swamp green
scraped down to Dead End Dick.
What the record don’t show is something:
how our pulp blossoms stunning scored by
the soundtrack of a comic strip. How we
breathe and birth blue, a million
tissue-thin opportunities tucked beneath
a fedora, the fold of a finger. A
membrane, transparence.
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