Mantis 22 (Summer 2024)
eccentric/eclectic/electric/ekphrastic

Jennifer Weigel


Grief

I sit

alone

adrift

Time passes.

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I wait.

My

breath

is

still

slow.

My

heart

is

still

heavy.

The

ache

is

still

there.

The

silence

is


1 … *


*footnotes to the footnote*

*agonizing

*aimless

*alarming

*alien

*aloof

*anguished

*anxious

*apathetic

*apparent

*arduous

*awkward

*bleak

*caustic

*cheerless

*cold

*comfortable

*complex

*confounding

*confusing

*consuming

*corroding

*damaging

*deafening

*debilitating

*degenerative

*depressing

*despairing

*destructive

*detrimental

*directionless

*disconcerting

*disengaging

*disheartening

*dismal

*disorienting

*disquieting

*distant

*distressing

*dreadful

*dreary

*empty

*encompassing

*endless

*enduring

*eternal

*everything

*exacerbating

*excruciating

*foreign

*forlorn

*ghastly

*gloomy

*great

*grievous

*harmful

*harrowing

*heavy

*holy

*immeasurable

*immediate

*immense

*impairing

*inaccessible

*incoherent

*inconsolable

*indifferent

*indistinct

*infinite

*inherent

*insignificant

*invisible

*isolating

*joyless

*laborious

*lasting

*limitless

*lingering

*long

*maddening

*massive

*melancholic

*miserable

*mistaken

*misunderstood

*monumental

*mortifying

*morose

*mournful

*nauseating

*noxious

*numbing

*obscure

*omnipresent

*oppressive

*otherworldly

*painful

*paramount

*pervasive

*present

*regretful

*relatable

*remorseful

*reticent

*saddening

*somber

*sorrowful

*superficial

*tedious

*terrifying

*tormenting

*torturous

*trivial

*troublesome

*trying

*ubiquitous

*unapproachable

*unattainable

*unclear

*uncomfortable

*unpleasant

*unrelenting

*unsettling

*unworldly

*upsetting

*urgent

*vast

*vexing

*visceral

*woeful

*worsening

*wretched

*… the rest is silence


JENNIFER WEIGEL is a multi-disciplinary mixed media conceptual artist. Weigel utilizes a wide range of media to convey her ideas, including assemblage, drawing, fibers, installation, jewelry, painting, performance, photography, sculpture, video and writing. Much of her work touches on themes of beauty, identity (especially gender identity), memory & forgetting, and institutional critique. You can read more of Weigel’s writing on her website here.

https://jenniferweigelwords.wordpress.com/