Art Essays

Deo Forgives Himself (Day has become night and dusk bumps noses with the Dawn) Deo sips his pain In a whiskey glass Burning his windpipe Reclining like Poseidon At ease under wounded light. Deo is separate A closed circle Fixed in his galaxy His still body vibrating Amongst the spinning spheres Deo Battled Mars to […]

Plague

Looking Hard There are enigmas in my home’s concrete Hidden in the hardened cement. A mélange of shining streams  Golden and impure If I could lift up the skirt Of my house and view these shapes underneath Would I see the Sea of Galilee? All those pieces of toast I’ve made in a lifetime Of […]

Playing the Part of Cain “I have followed too much the devices of my own heart” Devices that crawl and flop down intricate passages Looking in the clefts of rocks or inside graves Catacombs that fade from the eyes Dark blue seeping from the touches Of fallen angels Who go silent and withdraw. I need […]