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Art Essays

The Asking Poem

March 7, 2017

When Shall we ask for it ? When the floor cracks beneath somber sacks of sins?

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August?September show at Strange Brew

May 20, 2015

Joshua Kight’s paintings will be on Display at Strange Brew 5326 Manchaca rd.,Austin ,Texas in August and September of 2015

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The Great Plains

May 20, 2015

The Great Plains (Feel Good Now!) “Feel good now ” Said the street preacher . Look in the dark At the lost boys Hiding in the tree bark. Layer upon layer Of tramped dirt divorces. Buffalo breath on weeds Sprayed over suburban lawns Time compresses collapsing Gothic towers in to wounds On the plains where […]

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Resume

December 8, 2014

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Passing The Bowl

April 8, 2014

Passing the Bowl It’s been three years to the day Since I became like an uprooted Cluster of grass on a cold current Bumping in to riverbanks and logs But never staying anywhere long. In those days there were Black shapes in the trees Dark figures behind the trunks No answers on the breeze To […]

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Passing The Bowl

April 8, 2014

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The Cost of Everything

October 29, 2013

Chip Chunks off your monument
Poke holes in your wonderment

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Transfigured

November 16, 2012

Transfigured Where is the boy inside? Is he scratching at the crust of a cocoon? Every cell is replaced after fifty years Seven times seven times over Each bit of protoplasm is numbered With lost causes under eyes Drawn tight over leering shades Strutting on Dog’s legs In iridescent feathers And showing the soul on […]

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A Walk in Houston

October 26, 2012

A Walk in Houston Wandering down Washington Boulevard With dreams stolen in Norway That are Pasted on the eyelids Of every passing man. There is a fine coat of sadness Dusted on the huddled figures in the fifth ward. And visions get kicked to the curb Rootless, bootless , shirtless and shoeless. The blending wind […]

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Transfigured

October 3, 2012

Transfigured Where is the boy inside? Is he scratching at the crust of a cocoon? Every cell is replaced after fifty years Seven times seven times over Each bit of protoplasm is numbered With lost causes under eyes Drawn tight over leering shades Strutting on Dog’s legs In iridescent feathers And showing the soul on […]

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