Reading Herodotus, or driving through the Catskill range past the oxidized effluvium of long-eroded mountains; Past layers of catskills delta, where subsequent glaciers scraped at the Helderburgh sea, where the orogeny of the acadian mountains gave way to the Brachiopods of Mount …
Writing
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Our house was the first, floating free of its footing, moving away from the path leading through the pasture where we would pass the fly-swarmed dead horse, fascinated. I think I was fond of someone next door, but I don't remember. Was it here that I first met my father, home from …
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That quiet lot across the road, where comfort arms crossed, and woolen-sweater-sheathed the leapers, criers, the many children are absent. The wind gathers the leaves and bits of paper re-mixes their movement and positing folding and in-folding. Galvanized chain link fences, rusted along …
Bowling Alley
Do you ever have those dreams where you’re somewhere, a bus station perhaps, and turning the corner you’re in a bowling alley? Someone nailed my feet. To the floor. and my heart to I don’t know where, just that there was a story being told, a story that from an art-of-fiction …
Fire Island
The freckles on your back are the stars of the milkyway, My hand, the spaceship, slides down the ridge of vertebrae, through the small, across Orion's belt to the doubleness of your tush, tukas, ass, butt, derierre. In these outer reaches of the galaxy I lose my way - become …
Artists’ Games
Originally published on Successful-Blog.com on July 9, 2012 The Games Artists Play In his earlier days, the artist Chuck Close was a painter of gestural abstractions. After a personal crisis, he decided to take photographs, and square inch by square inch, make a large painting of the …
Admire! Admire! Admire!
A version of this post first appeared in Successful-Blog.com, June 2012 At first, when people are studying to become visual artists they work very hard at getting their hands to respond accurately to what they see. Over time there is a shift as the artist chooses to emphasize, edit, and curate – …
Vestibule
To wait is to attend, is to witness neon, flashing bowls of candy ribbon, doors revolving, the way starlings swirl, their murmuration, re-turning to the soot of long closed chimneys. …
facescape
In your face exists a landscape seen from a window every day, seen through porch columns, or when crossing the bridge. …
Hippies
We saw the hippies on Sunset Boulevard. My sister pointed to and was touched by a hippy on Sunset Boulevard. If we had remained, my brother …