Status Updates From Out of Speech: Poems (Sea C...

I wish there was a notes section. There are some ideas that don't quite make sense to me as a reader. I can't tell if things like "Yo, Adrien" is an inside joke or reference to the movie "Rocky."

"When Pubic Becomes Public" takes the elements of the painting and combines them with others to make new descriptors. As an ekphrastic poem of Tome Wesselman's "Great American Nude #57," Vines takes the daffodils in a vase and uses them as a descriptor for the woman's demi-bob hair (ex., "daffodil demi-bob"). This imagery connects the subject with their environment and demonstrate the poem's semi-independence.