I'd almost forgotten how it came to be that I've been making these large collages of ink on mulberry paper. Edom Hernandez had gifted me a fairly large stack of the paper before he died. The ream sat in my studio unused for many years, occupying its own drawer in the flat files. Edom had …
Writing
Surmontrose
At each frozen corner, pauses [ice, snow impediment, protrusive and concave] considerations in passing [slippery, slick, slide, slush] …
Note to a mime
Pantomime thief, music box angel, mask of a face. Lips wore red. with too-small wings you dance the buds on the tips of trees, branches pirouette Through subways, with screeching iron and popping sparks finally caught up with her, cornered. in the pavement where the Blackened …
Tumblekisses
When I do finally lay my head down, close my eyes, I see you looking downward, quietly, lips suddenly forming a broad smile. I kiss you, and close my eyes again, and fall asleep. Kiss. Close eyes. Fall asleep. There are the light, new kisses, tentative in both the giving and the …
Semiotic Pie
This first appeared in the DragonSearch Blog in January 2014 Friend and marketer Ty Sullivan questioned the relevancy of this Capital One ad. He suggested there was marketing disconnect. I, on the other hand, think the ad is, if not the work of an advertising genius, pretty …
Lyre Lips
Whistling, splashing, humming I can hear from your Magyar lyre lips, Russet harmonics, melody, rhythms, tambourine jingle rattle swap. Gypsy waist engirdles words of desire murmuring awake slumbering crumbled clay. Pomegranate drips, ripened pears, baskets Woven from reeds encircled and …
Africa Antibiotica
I'm fairly adept with languages, but hardly thorough. I can learn a lot of words, some grammar, and then the language will swim about in my head, frothing the waters like a school of desperate mullet. At times, my brain can provide the mot juste, at others, nothing more than a fluttering aphasia …
Social Media as Trend
Originally published in Trends Journal, October 2013 We’ve always had social media. Sitting around a campfire telling stories is fundamentally social, with the air around our heads being the medium, populated by human voices. Sixteenth Century denizens of Florence and Rome were known to tie notes …
Mahalo, Oahu!
Hawaii is one of those legendary destinations that for everyone who has taken the journey, love. And for those of us who haven’t, we know we’d love it, because we’ve seen it in movies and television. There’s the beautiful woman in a hula skirt encircling your neck with a garland of flowers, a pig …
You’re OK, Now Let’s Make Change
First published on DragonSearch 26 Sep 2013 As a young couple in the 70’s, my parent’s library consisted of a closet bookshelf. I developed my love of reading by carefully studying the pages of the Manual of the Medical Department of the U.S. Navy, Jansen’s History of Art, Kahil …