Kristalyn Bunyan
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  • CV
  • Prints
    • Platinum Palladium Prints from Tanzania and India (2017)
    • Handmade Paper and (mostly) Natural Inks (2016-2017)
    • Leaf/Natural Monoprints (2106-2017)
    • Attempting (2013)
    • Earth Abstracts on Handmade Paper
    • Crystalline Refraction
  • Photographs
    • Asheville Fashmob 2017
    • Frozen Fragility
    • Maternity
    • Minimalism in Marshall
    • Nature >
      • Mushrooms
    • Portrait
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      • Bahamas (Nassau)
      • Belize
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        • Around Praia
        • Praia to Tarrfala
      • Curacao
      • Iceland
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        • Zanzibar
        • Serengeti, Ngorogoro, and Arusha
        • Pangani, Ushango Bay and Dar es Salaam
      • Nova Scotia >
        • Five Islands, Blomidon Provincial Park, Whale Cove, Digby, Keji Park, Randall Provincial Park, Lunnenburg, Mahone Bay, Halifax
        • Halifax
        • Peggy's Cove/Prospect
        • Port Hood to St. Lawrence Bay via Cabot Trail
        • Sherbrooke to Port Hood 7/8/12
        • St. Lawrence Bay to Baddeck to Caribou
      • India >
        • Kerala
        • Shimla and Kashmir
        • Hanuman Monkey temple, Fatephur Sikh, and Taj Mahal & the Khujaraho Temples
        • New Delhi and Jaipur
      • Maui
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        • Cabo San Lucas
        • Frida Kahlo's Blue House
        • Mexico City
        • Playa del Carmen
        • Xochimilco 2012
      • New Zealand
      • Puerto Rico (San Juan)
      • San Francisco
      • Sao Miguel, Azores
      • St. Thomas
      • Terceira, Azores >
        • Urban Landscape (Angra do Heroismo and beyond)
        • Cabral Islets (Goat Islands)
        • Church of Our Lady of Guia & Museum of Angra do Heroismo
        • Cows, Cats, and Birds...
        • Gruta do Natal and Algar do Carvao
        • Landscape of Terceira
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      • Alana & Jefferson's Wedding
      • Weddings
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      • Women's March
      • Women of India
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    • About Now
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    • Handspun Alpaca Yarn
    • Knitted Experiments
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Disobedient Fingers
 
A wrinkle is written upon your cloak
 when you refuse to release
 the symbol of the traveled thought
 who tarried through time
 to be birthed by you.



Mt. Vesuvius
The naked being
surrenders her suspicions
to the sea.
 
Her form flees
to fields irrigated by light.
 
Her sight slips
from her sockets to
a tunnel of terrible silence.
 
Her blood boils
below craters in the sea,
burns like scented oils.
 
Gods and saints
receive the fragrant smoke.
 
My feelings foam
on Death’s mustache
like sea froth against
a rusty fishing boat.



The Pause
 The Pause, a trapped heart,
 pulsated in place.
 
 Indifference froze it
 in a crystalline shell of paranoia.
 
 The Pause
 in its denial of time
 beat itself
 against the glass of the soul.
 
 Its strength broke the transparent skin.
 
 When the Pause diffused into existence,
 the soul breathed in
 the fragrances of fear and want.



Poetic Leeches
Unable to escape the leeches of my mind,
who neither burned in the heat of Rome
nor drowned in my sweat
I feed them their friends–
 
For breakfast, a bowl of Lorca.
For lunch, a plate of Cortazar.
And for a snack, Rilke.
 
But for dinner,
my pests are starved.
Hungrily, the leeches gnaw on my mind.






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  • Bio
  • CV
  • Prints
    • Platinum Palladium Prints from Tanzania and India (2017)
    • Handmade Paper and (mostly) Natural Inks (2016-2017)
    • Leaf/Natural Monoprints (2106-2017)
    • Attempting (2013)
    • Earth Abstracts on Handmade Paper
    • Crystalline Refraction
  • Photographs
    • Asheville Fashmob 2017
    • Frozen Fragility
    • Maternity
    • Minimalism in Marshall
    • Nature >
      • Mushrooms
    • Portrait
    • Travel >
      • Bahamas (Nassau)
      • Belize
      • Cape Verde >
        • Around Praia
        • Praia to Tarrfala
      • Curacao
      • Iceland
      • Tanzania >
        • Zanzibar
        • Serengeti, Ngorogoro, and Arusha
        • Pangani, Ushango Bay and Dar es Salaam
      • Nova Scotia >
        • Five Islands, Blomidon Provincial Park, Whale Cove, Digby, Keji Park, Randall Provincial Park, Lunnenburg, Mahone Bay, Halifax
        • Halifax
        • Peggy's Cove/Prospect
        • Port Hood to St. Lawrence Bay via Cabot Trail
        • Sherbrooke to Port Hood 7/8/12
        • St. Lawrence Bay to Baddeck to Caribou
      • India >
        • Kerala
        • Shimla and Kashmir
        • Hanuman Monkey temple, Fatephur Sikh, and Taj Mahal & the Khujaraho Temples
        • New Delhi and Jaipur
      • Maui
      • Mexico >
        • Cabo San Lucas
        • Frida Kahlo's Blue House
        • Mexico City
        • Playa del Carmen
        • Xochimilco 2012
      • New Zealand
      • Puerto Rico (San Juan)
      • San Francisco
      • Sao Miguel, Azores
      • St. Thomas
      • Terceira, Azores >
        • Urban Landscape (Angra do Heroismo and beyond)
        • Cabral Islets (Goat Islands)
        • Church of Our Lady of Guia & Museum of Angra do Heroismo
        • Cows, Cats, and Birds...
        • Gruta do Natal and Algar do Carvao
        • Landscape of Terceira
    • Weddings >
      • Alana & Jefferson's Wedding
      • Weddings
    • Activism >
      • Women's March
      • Women of India
  • Poems
    • From Before
    • About Now
  • Crafts
    • Handspun Alpaca Yarn
    • Knitted Experiments
    • Handmade Felted Soap
  • ETC.
    • Articles >
      • Italy
    • Blog
    • Doodles
    • Modeling