Atticus NFT Collection: 1.3
“A Misplaced Tropical Pond
Leads to a Feminist Daydream”
Atticus NFT Collection: 1.3
Title:
“A Misplaced Tropical Pond
Leads to a Feminist Daydream”
Collections:
- Apple Green
- Red + Blue
- Pink + Green
- Blue + Green
- Green + Teal
Notes:
Christina Cook for The Rumpus: “Marcia LeBeau’s debut collection, A Curious Hunger, is a powerful testament to the unabashed wholeness of womanhood and…a deeply political book…because I consider writing about the personal to be a political act, especially when it comes to a woman’s sexuality, bodily autonomy, and roles in society.”
About the Work:
Right now, the poet’s favorite “thing” in this poem is the raspberry preserve. We therefore floated a spilled jar of jam on the lake for the NFT image. The editor’s favorite “thing” in the poem is the word laundered. It’s astonishing how much wild elegance a starchy, domesticated word can gather in the lines of a poem.
The Author:
Marcia LeBeau is the author of A CURIOUS HUNGER (Broadstone Books, 2024). Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, New Ohio Review, Rattle, and elsewhere. She was a third-place co-winner of the 2023 Allen Ginsberg Award and received an honorable mention for the Rattle Poetry Prize. Her work has also received several Pushcart Prize nominations. She has an MFA in poetry from VCFA and is the founder of The Write Space, a co-working and literary hub for creative writers in The Valley Arts District of Orange, New Jersey.
Broader Strokes:
Bloody sheets, they happen every day.
Collect the NFT
“A Misplaced Tropical Pond Leads to a Feminist Daydream” by Marcia LeBeau
Apple Green
30 ADA
“A Misplaced Tropical Pond Leads to a Feminist Daydream” by Marcia LeBeau
Red + Blue
30 ADA
“A Misplaced Tropical Pond Leads to a Feminist Daydream” by Marcia LeBeau
Pink + Green
30 ADA
“A Misplaced Tropical Pond Leads to a Feminist Daydream” by Marcia LeBeau
Blue + Green
30 ADA
A Misplaced Tropical Pond
Leads to a Feminist Daydream
that looks like a tropical sea. A German
immigrant named Johann Vass
bought the land
with White Lake on it 260 years ago.
Johann had four wives because three
of them died during childbirth.
I don’t know much about the Mrs. Vasses,
but I gather from the moment
they married Mr. Vass, they tended
and bred most everything in that home
until the day they bled out for life. I’m curious
if they wondered what it was all for
as they dizzily watched the patch of raspberry preserve
slowly stain the white sheet beneath them.
The one they had laundered only last week.
There’s a body of water in New Jersey
that looks like a tropical sea. A German
immigrant named Johann Vass
bought the land
with White Lake on it 260 years ago.
Johann had four wives because three
of them died during childbirth.
I don’t know much about the Mrs. Vasses,
but I gather from the moment
they married Mr. Vass, they tended
and bred most everything in that home
until the day they bled out for life. I’m curious
if they wondered what it was all for
as they dizzily watched the patch of
raspberry preserve
slowly stain the white sheet beneath them.
The one they had laundered only last week.