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Another affair with Water

Another full spread image. These clippings almost give you the full effect. For this, I've used the same Stained Glass* effect. It is a style I've grown comfortable with. Simply find an image that has a lot of lines and... Continue Reading →

Celestial Navigation

Number 7 is about image and sun and finding your own way and Bob Marley.Number 7 is the place where you should let your hair down, loosen your belt, drink a root beer, and free yourself from whatever preconceived notions... Continue Reading →

Controversy 27

This is the second in the on-going internal series of Controversys. I am a writer who responds well to limits and rules (Too much submission? Perhaps). Sometimes, there are just too many words in the world. This poem says: You... Continue Reading →

The Eye is the First Circle

Your prompt? Make something atrocious. Seriously: make an ugly poem.

Encountering Farnham’s light-displacement

The thing about experimental writing is it insists that you follow every impulse, no matter how vague.

Build Your Own Boat

What you call a poem without words? A picture poem. Inspired by Deborah Keenan.

“The French word for scissors, is the plural of the word for chisel”

On erasure: You have so many options. Henri Matisse shows us one.

The Light Displacement Controversy

The first poem is the most important. This is and is not about boats.

The Controversys

Down in the basement of a local bookstore this weekend, we grabbed a 1984 copy of Wooden Boat and a 2007 copy of Artforum for collage. Thus began a new project. And with the new project, a direction (finally) for this blog.

blog is here

Talk about rebirth. Explain your feelings about things.

Cedar (Re)names Animals

The renaming of animals.

Four Conversations with Cedar, age 3

(Originally posted July 17th, 2013) For the lead-up to Cedar’s fantabulous eighth birthday I posted these conversations on the book of faces, because what is 8 but a mirror of 3? Here they are again: no. one: The snake and... Continue Reading →

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