after van gogh

after van gogh

ink on post-it note

4" x 3"

Van Gogh drawings
Arranged on post-it
Notes are as easy as
Grappling with moral
Obscurities or
Giving more than
Half your liver away

In a Word: titubation
In a Book: The Lost Books of the Odyssey - Zachary Mason
In a Song: Dry - William Elliot Whitmore

stone dust

stone dust

stone dust, charcoal and tea on laid paper

5" x 5"

the smell of stone

dusty, mineral, cool,

pungent, powdery bone

sits in my nose

an earthen concoction

inculcating

fulminating

one turgid explosion

chinese flower tea

chinese flower tea

ink, watercolor and coffee on cardboard

7" x 4"

the smell of grounds for a mistake
pungent chicory and cedar flake
sweet to the touch, sweet on the lip
poison gets you down the line at stake

hide in a mountain, or her hip
there is no way in to give the slip
bracketed hunger and desire
writing out punctuated flesh scrip

green leaves floating inside your tea
the fates have paced your grassy lea
clouding your vision with salt-fire
a honey-fly stinging like a bee

no water-world can quench the pyre
carnal thoughts quiver, shake and perspire
passing moments like tadpoles teem
beautific, haloed, stagnant and dire

you are caught in a rushing stream,
sapped of strength, you give in to ache.

In a Word: daddock
In a Book: Dark Matter- Philip Kerr
In a Song: Like it or Not- Architecture in Helsinki

asha

asha

charcoal on toned paper

4"x5"

how the corpse is dressed,

in taffeta or cold lace,

in silk, cotton or gauze,

says little about life

but, shown in light, blue-tinged, under porcelain sheen,

it falls into the place where driftwood is removed from beach by sea

where longing and regret cast sharp shadows

where lonliness is a wailing sound rippling a pond

where loss derives from being

here it resides by you, alone and full

in your book of remembrance

In a Word- obumbrate

In a Book- The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea Philip Hoare

In a Song- Beat the Devil's Tattoo Black Rebel Motorcycle Club