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in retrospect — some questions

Coronavirus sent me home from my day-job at the hospital on the third of April. I did not get *really* sick until a while later, around the 8th. I am now in some sort of extended and relentless recovery pattern.... Continue Reading →

Paint Your Own Pictures

Word Your Own Poem Prompt: Take it down to the letter-level. *Boggle Appeal: The ability of a word or words to be rearranged into new words.

The Interrogation of the Ways

Today an image heavy post, with a sparse poem to accompany. In this case, I worked on the poem first, and then finished the image. Sometimes, certain words just pop out. In my case, it was "take care." Also, never... Continue Reading →

“what you hear is a map of sound”

I think we could all use a refresher on what we are fighting for these days, in whose footsteps we follow, and whose footsteps certain factions would like to erase.

Library of Water

I am once again defeated by anger and sorrow at the ever-growing list of murdered black men.

Intermission

We all need a little recess from time to time. For me, that time was today. Today's post and next Wednesday's are both intermissions from the current project and both are translations. Abstraction and Experimentation both ask us to find... Continue Reading →

The Survival of the Fish King

Forewarn: Physically uncomfortable as I began this post, I finally removed the snorkel and umbrella from the chair I have been sitting on too long. Which is to say, my youngest son is coughing on the sofa where he has... Continue Reading →

Broken White

Sometimes your art will live in a safe and insular world and sometimes that world will have to open up and acknowledge the outside world too. This past week has been grief filled. I have often written, in essay or... Continue Reading →

The Eye is the First Circle

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

Build Your Own Boat

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

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.

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