(after Artemisia Gentileschi’s “Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting”)

rich color drips from

baroque drapery

breath held behind a

medallion of death

woven in and out of containment a

divine frenzy of strands

artist as femme

artist as forbidden

artist as touched

artist as icon

artist as self

Dane Lyn is a nuerodivergent, genderqueer, educator, poet, and glitter enthusiast with an MFA from Lindenwood University. Find them in Southern California, ridding their shoes of beach sand, loving on their partner, playing music too loud, constructing blanket forts, and caring for their menagerie of teens, snakes, lizards, dogs, rabbits, and cats. Dane’s work often centers on themes of disability and queerness and can be seen in The Dillydoun Review, Riveting Rants, and Imposter Lit, links to which are all at DaneLyn.net