gathering

You could say it started when i put on the buffalo tooth. Wendell gave it to me years ago, but suddenly, it keeps showing up in my mind, insistently, urging me, demanding. So i take it off my ceiling, chain it around my neck, wear it to the mountains and back. When i see Wendell in Brooklyn, i show him. He says "that's good medicine."

All i want anymore is animal: feathers, skeletons, antlers, incisors, eggshells.


I'm gathering it: rounded, fragile shards and coves of sky the robin chicks burst from; drifts of cloudy down; strangely colored, twisted leaves and twigs shaped like goddess; a spectrum of grass seed fronds. The cats shed transparent claws and thin whisker strands. The hinged leg of a detached birdleg, talon mid-clutch. I pick it all up, press it between pages. Evidence, potsherds, a trail i follow.

What am i piecing together?

evolution in arts

Evolution in Arts:
a quarterly event featuring emerging and established artists.

Abstract works of art are the main interest. Nothing too traditional.


Friday, July 3, doors @ 7:00 pm, show @ 7:30 pm

Garfield Artwoks 4391 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15224
www.garfieldartworks.com

$5 suggested donation


poetry from:

Molly Prosser
Renée Alberts

artwork by:

Dave Cubie
Obsolete (Radical kats photography)
Elan Wojciechowski
Katie Jarret
Masha Vereshenko
Jesse Best

music from:

Brooke Annibale
Ambienprov
Action Camp
DJ Ohmss through the night


This reading is one of many that are part of Pittsburgh's first Small Press Festival.

riverprayer

white rock dove
wingspan full spread
over bridge-spine
over river

you need to get near some big water,
see her without her face on
when you can't find her eyes:
universe skeleton
gnashing her teeth,

full terror,
full peace.

inter view

Have a look at online litmag SubtleTea, whose June issue includes an interview with myself and lots and lots of compelling words and thoughts and images and history and etceteras.