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THE BATTLE FOR MODeRN 1923


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Laura Hohlwein

Flom­mist Laura Hohlwein is a contemporary abstract surrealist.

Laura Hohlwein
Fri 31 Oct 2025

woof

                   Cur­rent­ly be­ing served by a were­wolf at DMV.                             He said he’s been a woof for as long as he can remember. 

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Laura Hohlwein
Mon 6 Mar 2023

wise bird

dreamt last night of kind of ter­ri­fy­ing storm clouds               close and black  and puls­ing with coloured light­ning  the wind rip­ping off the

Mor 

Laura Hohlwein
Mon 28 Nov 2022

friends –

This giv­ing sea­son, please con­sid­er spend­ing your mon­ey to very di­rect­ly, dol­lar for dol­lar, im­pact the lives of East African chil­dren and

Mor 

Laura Hohlwein
Fri 23 Sep 2022

this is a feeling I enjoy

I love buy­ing art. I love (al­most) for­get­ting  I bought a piece of art and see­ing an odd, care­­ful­­ly-packed pack­age on my porch

Mor 

Laura Hohlwein
Wed 19 Jan 2022

the falconer

An old poem. For no rea­son.                                                              They have kept me hun­gry so I’d come back. They took off my hood and I

Mor 

Laura Hohlwein
Sun 14 Nov 2021

in the air tonight

Long af­ter I quit smok­ing cig­a­rettes, I’d some­times sneak a puff in my head … Last night, I had a mas­sive par­ty in a

Mor 

Laura Hohlwein
Mon 27 Sep 2021

great times

I am hav­ing a mo­men­tary thrill think­ing, not only of the mighty, in­spir­ing, pow­er­ful and de­light­ful art that will be made as

Mor 

Laura Hohlwein
Thu 1 Oct 2020

weirdly, i do feel like injecting myself with bleach

Does any­one over­seas have a dank cel­lar I can hide out in for sev­er­al months to four years? I’ll be very qui­et and

Mor 

Laura Hohlwein
Mon 7 Sep 2020

got lentil?

Does any­body have a bag of soup they could walk over?  I didn’t have my ID at the gro­cery store and I need

Mor 

Laura Hohlwein
Sat 18 Jul 2020

‘find a way to get in trouble. good trouble, necessary trouble.’

“The late Asa Rand­loph, who was the dean of Black lead­er­ship, said over and over again when we were plan­ning the March

Mor 

Laura Hohlwein
Tue 14 Apr 2020

in residence

So I was a bit re­luc­tant to par­tic­i­pate in this one be­cause I have a tough time be­ing in front of a

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Laura Hohlwein
Sat 11 Apr 2020

another corona day done. i think it was a friday in april.

“His­tor­i­cal­ly, pan­demics have forced hu­mans to break with the past and imag­ine their world anew. This one is no dif­fer­ent. It is

Mor 

Laura Hohlwein
Tue 31 Mar 2020

now

At first, it is like gauze over my eyes then a sheet, some­thing, over my face grow­ing thick­er, stick­i­er. Heavy, heavy the white light

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Laura Hohlwein
Tue 4 Feb 2020

such a critical time in our history

‘It nev­er hap­pened.’ ‘It hap­pened, but not the way you said.’ ‘It hap­pened, but it wasn’t il­le­gal.’ ‘It hap­pened, it was il­le­gal, and

Mor 

Laura Hohlwein
Sun 2 Dec 2018

lost in the wave

I’ve had about three thou­sand tidal wave dreams in my day.  In last night’s ver­sion, by a nice turn of luck, I was

Mor 

Laura Hohlwein
Mon 5 Nov 2018

confession

For far longer than I care to ad­mit, I was one of those peo­ple im­pli­cat­ed when the an­noy­ing pub­lic ra­dio dri­ves would

Mor 

Laura Hohlwein
Fri 12 Oct 2018

i don’t know who left the fridge open

How do I put this? I hon­est­ly don’t re­late to about  .  .  .  95% of how we de­scribe life to one an­oth­er.  I do

Mor 

Laura Hohlwein
Thu 27 Sep 2018

old, white, powerful

Fel­low Amer­i­cans … What do you think the odds are this Ka­vanaugh ‘hear­ing’ gets just as gross and shock­ing and em­bar­rass­ing as we

Mor 

Laura Hohlwein
Sat 1 Sep 2018

mampostería de la suerte

So, much too late in our trav­els, we found an app that you can speak into and it trans­lates what you say

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Laura Hohlwein
Sun 19 Aug 2018

goya: the black paintings

“Im­pris­oned in a tomb of si­lence, Goya dis­tanced him­self from so­ci­ety, be­com­ing bit­ter and in­creas­ing­ly oc­cu­pied with his own anx­i­eties and fantasies

Mor 

Laura Hohlwein
Fri 17 Aug 2018

inheritance

gonna post this old poem, be­cause to­day I think we found the spot that I have dreamt about hun­dreds and hun­dreds of times.

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Laura Hohlwein
Fri 3 Aug 2018

‘l’impossible rose de la nuit’

Soon enough I’ll go back to a life full of holes and prob­lems,  but deep in a cave to­day I saw an

Mor 

Laura Hohlwein
Wed 19 Jul 2017

out of dodge

How the week start­ed   The jun­gle wak­ing up Mystical/Magical if that does­n’t come through   And no, that’s not a honk­ing van Anyone

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Laura Hohlwein
Mon 19 Jun 2017

glad they let him play

I was buy­ing too many 4 dol­lar sum­mer-weath­­er tops at a thrift store to­day.  All the while some­one was play­ing in­tri­cate and highly-skilled

Mor 

Laura Hohlwein
Sat 28 Jan 2017

going forward

I’m com­fort­ing my­self with thoughts of you. I know, and you know, so so so many strong, wor­thy, thought­ful, com­pas­sion­ate, flex­i­ble, capable,

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