Breadcrumb Scabs Issue #12

Breadcrumbs Scabs Issue #12 is out, and it includes a piece of poultry called "How Much the Jaw Weighs" (thanks, Lena...). There's also great work by Rachel Mehl, Joseph R. Trombatore, Joe Dacey, Nick DePascal, Brandon S. Roy, Brett Elizabeth Jenkins, Sean Lovelace, Drew Kalbach, C.L. Bledsoe, Shannon Walsh, Matt Roberts, Janice Krasselt Medin, Amy Newday, Charles Rutter, and editor-in-chief Lena Judith Drake. Peep game, yo...

5 comments:

Mel Bosworth said...

great work, eb. killin' it.

Teresa Houle said...

The more of you I read, the more of you I like!

Eric Beeny said...

Hi Mel, thank you, sir...

Hi Teresa, that makes me big happy to hear. Thank you...

Ethel Rohan said...

Eric, these were two powerful images for me:

a sleeping tongue
in a wet crib
with loose bars.

AND

with a mouth
so big that
when I’m old

I’ll soak
my dentures
in a bathtub.

As someone who carries much of my tension in my jaw (I almost always wake-up throughout the night and in the morning with my jaw locked and teeth clamped),I am fascinated by the ideas around how much memory my jaw holds and how much I have felt silenced/voiceless in my life.

Your work brought up these issues for me again: the power of art.

Well done.

Eric Beeny said...

Hi Ethel, thanks. It's no fun, I know--I’ve got awful tension pains, too. I'm big happy you liked those images. And yeah, the feeling of voicelessness, of forced silence...it works politically, too. Thanks, Ethel...