Ekphrastic Collaboration: Larry Oakner and Edward Ferrand

Volcano of Desire, by Edward Ferrand (USA) contemporary

Volcano of Desire
 
When we are together
I am gentle as a dove in your hand.
A supernova of leaves blossom above us,
while a magma of love 
overflows the moonlit night.

Your Love Sees Through Me, by Edward Ferrand (USA) contemporary

Your Love Sees Through Me

Blue kisses in the night
lift me to new heights of passion
where birds take flight
over a field of black and white checkered dreams
into a constellation of light.

Sleeping Dogs Lie, by Edward Ferrand (USA) contemporary

​Sleeping Dogs Lie

Memories dog me nightly. 
This is the incontrovertible dogma of dreams
keeping me hamstrung and unable to flee
from dogs or dilemmas 
that leave me helpless on my pillow.

Larry Oakner

Larry Oakner is the author of several books of poems, including SEX LOVE RELIGION (Blind Tattoo Press) along withthe chapbook, The Canticles of Private Lucius Swan, (Pen & Anvil Press). His poems have appeared recently in Red Eft Review, WINK, The Oddville Press, Pink Litter Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, Lost Coast Review and many others. Oakner lives in New York. 

Edward Ferrand holds a degree in fine art from Pratt Institute in NYC. He has worked as a graphic designer, art director, illustrator, museum program director and art educator. He currently pursues his interest in painting. He divides his time between northern  Colorado and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.