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Soft Spring
Blue Dasher
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If Not for the First Time
Woman No. 1, paper collage, 2021 a convulsion of dandelions the angle at which the suncontemplates your facethe square root of matterthe crudeness of formthe bleak, unpleasant smells of trafficor, perhaps, the absence of a butterfly in a pair of frail, outstretched handsthe artist retreatsnothing ventures; nothing sails
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The Fig Tree
a fig tree in continuous sunlightthe landscape folds on its limbsas if to say, every body is its own reason for being a sparrow calls its name, looks upon what isn’t thereeverything thrives; nothing movesbut the living
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Necessary People
Premonition, paper collage, 2022 the heart is an ideala solitaire of apron stringsthe morning chorus is a yellow jacketwithout raina goldfish a solipsism of staircasesfinite, until proven otherwise all the necessary people ask themselves if a radio without handsis as surreal as a pocket knifeif the antidote to sunshine isn’t more sunshine in a panif […]
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Sensitivity Is a Virtue
Sensitivity Is a Virtue, collage on book cover, 2022 We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are. Anaïs Nin I sometimes think I’ve grown more sensitive as I’ve gotten older. Indeed, I seem to have reached that age at which a great deal of popular culture now offends my sensibilities, […]
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We’ve Been Here Before
We’ve Been Here Before, mixed media collage, 2022 all of these words; none of these words the promise of motion, the expectation of form a window is severed a note written in pencil, half-erased: i wish to exit the anthill less is almost always less the moon, these days, is extravagantly long a head, but […]
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One Spring Day
Great Blue Heron I almost published a psychology-related post today but decided against it at the last minute. It’s not quite done, I don’t think. So, I thought I would share some photographs instead. Last Friday morning, I visited a local park in the hopes of photographing some water birds. I was rewarded by getting […]
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In Plain Sight
an ant in plain sight a molecule with or without limbs refusing to live, refusing to die a mouth midway between lovers a kiss that makes the sun shine differently a blade of grass in context is a gutter of meaning the first principle of enlightenment: capturing a dove in unadulterated sunlight the contents of […]
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On Possibility
The Desire to Be, paper collage, 2022 A few months ago, another blogger posed to me, during the course of a lengthy conversation about psychology, a hypothetical scenario: he was depressed, drinking too much, disshelved, had lost all interest in work, relationships, hobbies, had become, in some sense, indifferent to living. What’s the first thing […]
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Knower and Known
Knower and Known, paper collage, 2022 My latest experiment in collage art, “Knower and Known.” On the whole, I’m satisfied with this collage, but I am fretting slightly over the quality of the image here. I normally post JPEGs from a high resolution scanner at the shop where I get my prints made, but they’re […]
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