Poetry & Places

Gouache, paint pen, white out pen, house paint, acrylic, enamel

New solo music ep   Tessellation

“The light inside me growing  getting deeper and stronger  and so warm I was— beginning to melt”

It's about my painter friend named Emma. Thanks for reading.

New 32 verse serial poem chapbook 'Mimesis' 40 page saddle stitched hand numbered edition of 75. Sliding scale 5-7$ private message me if interested

she sends me roses, a moon, and a couple diamonds (through the phone) she works in a floral shop among florists she is a painter— in real life. I consider her my best friend even when we don’t speak the silence between us is a well received gift for our dreams I talk to her about painting and she replies, painterly with advice. I listen readerly with adverbial strength writerly my intent becomes Truncated. I stand before a classroom in front of colors and shapes I have put onto a canvas to explain the mistakes I’ve learned from the easel as a writer I think back to mixing colors abandoning the palette knife to swish a round brush instead I consider the outcomes I have presented a vulnerability To offer scenes of isolation with strength they become weakened supports for what I dream: of my visions of my ability. She sends me advice about real life (on the phone) I send roses the phone says, ‘Delivered.’  

When she said, ‘our bodies made most of water and when the moon shifts the tides of the sea, they shift the tides of our bodies.’ The waters inside change the mind and feelings that coincide I found passage from the cigarette between my fingers to rest in the life rafts that are her lips and the smoke separated my vision from her eyes. She spoke of the train sounds from her window as I listen to a train’s sound from my window. I contemplate my 5 year journal and what will become of the last page what precipice I will be standing before (or after) 5 years from now.

I can (not) teach these yet.

Truncation of Natures 24 x 36 (2) gouache, acrylic, spray paint, oil stick, white out  

(private message me if you are interested in a getting one)