What Remains (KJ)

"and to crush
underfoot

seedling and fence
or fawn in its dreaming

beckon beckon fire
upon me upon
him in his taking

upon waking sudden
in my violence
ripped from
sleep
demon in my throat
hoarse in its defense
to

wall you
from me
from him
from the dying aster
taken in its blooming
and carved with petal screaming
name upon name
your name

and i
eaten like
bitter honey
trespass
upon your tongue"

oilgraph - small

Soon We Will Remember

not easy in these days
with the weather breathing cotton
a brutality of softness
everything losing its edge

even you

i long for a razor of light
anything

and i will cut this blanket of slumber
from our bodies
to wave like a flag
in the sweltering dawn

surrender to a victory we abandoned
or reclaim the field
once again
this first love

i left in the rain

unmounted oilgraph - 7x5

Lets See How...

Nowhere left to go - you and I
But I'll take the wheel
This one last time

And let's see how fast this thing can go...

oilgraph on fast paper

Even Until

EVEN UNTIL
PERE LACHAISE - PARIS

Things ok that are not ok

"it's why we move
or go
to paris
to austin

filling wells that empty here
our little buckets of hope

love defeats us
sometimes when
invisible hands
curl fingers round
a memory we held
in a picture frame in our heart
to send longing into the wind

there are things ok
that are not ok
for books
that are unfinished
write forever before us
stories not to know until

in quiet spring
paris or austin
a river will give up its mystery
break vermilion and aster
onto our tongues

sing now
of empty frames
of us in pretty light
or when the wind returns
what is ours"

theory labs on a cold afternoon
film in rodinal - 35mm - los angeles

For the Taking

FOR THE TAKING (MICHELLE)
POLAROID 55

WHEN THE DAY COMES
OILGRAPH - 10X8