My Art, Lisa’s Writing

Distorted Mirror

Shiny fingers
fabulous tables
sweet maidens
face sorrow
behind Gucci
shades

Fast world
tilt a whirl
lines on
her face
or her
mirror

Reflecting the
ugly she
sees, others
cannot see
so she
is devoured
like sweet
candy sucked
until it
turns others
ssour

Lisa’s Art, My Writing

Methods of Last Defense

the globe is warming
and Bush is eating corn
while bombs burn
women in robes
women in Washington
women who cannot speak
are spoken for with hate

killing is not strength
redemption is not death
AIDS is not health care
faith is not an excuse
make better kindness
we’ve got to cast better light

lobbying for pain
our dreams alert civil power
ethanol neighbors
babies without rights
the truth will save
but the planet will suffer

racism now
how about serenity now
for all colors, all progress
smoking out the world
immigrants moving
fighting targets
bleeding
breaking
man

humility is an orphan
dirty and rich
we’re swallowing glory as policy
with the promise of nothing
except the change we make
right now

after ‘Crisco’

The above image is a 37″ x 40″ photograph by Marilyn Minter entitled “Crisco.

I’ve written the piece below in response to this image.

after Crisco

the scent of musk
closed eyes
from buzzing mind
glass tears ripping
holes in retina

life grinding you
evolve or expire
stage sweat
lucite heels
you’re painting
toes up in air
sliding
slowly
into focus

filament of flesh
vaseline fahrenheit
you give dream jobs
for blow
blow jobs
for cash
stuffed in holes
by fingers stained
and chewed

pole spinning tanned
your ass is art
fantasy fantastic
sweet feline
you honey coated beast
of pounding bass

drive your engine to
the end of lights
end of stage
balance the pony
until you don’t see
anything but angels

Saturday Dinner

Richard and I chef’d an amazing dinner (mussels not shown because they were eaten in minutes). I chopped things — he did all the rest.

I photographed it and wrote a response…

we make

honey
garlic
olive oil
mahi
rub
rosemary
white
wine
mussels
mango
salsa:
red onion
mango
red
green
pepper
cilantro
balsamic
vinegar
garlic
yellow
rice
green
olives
squash
broccoli
zucchini
mojitos:
rose’s
bacardi
fresh
mint
salt
pepper
butter
whole
wheat
bread
dipping
oil

beautiful food together

Sole

“Though I crawl these filthy streets my shoes still remain impeccable.”

I took this photo on Saturday, September 23rd, 2007, in Cocoa Beach, Florida.

The accompanying text was written by Richard Seal. He is also the owner of the fancy shoes.

Part 1

These are four text “illuminations”. This has been a popular art form since poetry was first written down — many a monk, scholar, artist, fellow poet and/or avid reader have spent time illustrating to better understand the sentiment behind work. I find doing this forces me to slow down and really chew on the words. Not to mention, as I’m hardly a drawist, it’s allowed me to expand my horizons and find the FUN in sketching!

This is a small portion of a larger project that I’ll be working on all semester.

The text is “The Descent of Alette” by Alice Notely.

The pages illuminated in this post are: 3, 21, 93 and 105.