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Three Poems
Share:FacebookTwitterLinkedinTumblrPrintThe Defection Of The Pale Horse Of The Apocalypse Saddled-up again we ride to sweat and bone, gallop across the bogs, fugitive from the sweep of the scythe of mortality, come to collect its due for the passing through this life, for what I took from its brimful cache of loves and sorrows.
Kirsten Kindler: Delicate Contradictions
Share:FacebookTwitterLinkedinTumblrPrintSifting through recycled magazines for materials to create her elaborate cut paper constructions is a process Kirsten Kindler calls “hunting and gathering.”  The Richmond-based artist collects and collates images into thematic groupings: cars, architectural details, electronic equipment, stairways and other signifiers of acquired domesticity.   From these miniature facsimiles of luxury, Kirsten Kindler builds intricate structures that serve as delicately fraught monuments to material culture.
Arrhythmia
"...those ruddy bastards need to know that I intend to collect.”
Belva’s Meat Market
He is blunt as a dull knife...
Horny
People are starting to 'go together' and get all hand holdy...
My First Petition
...I heard a lot about God.
Shade
...a black hole of virtuality.
Recede and Become Your Mother
The 56 Dreadful Things My Mother and I Have in Common
That’s Gay
...I decided to tell my mother.
Commercial aspects of ongoing insomnia
...moving toward three in the morning...
Making a Difference
One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding
My Sister – A Love Story
Touch is everything now, maybe the only way to communicate.
A Most Unhappy Fella
...it was pretty funny that I’d end up working for Funt in the Summer of 1965.
We Will Get To Know You
This is a segment from Mary's novel “The Shaman Factory.”
Background Music
“Baseball is the background music of my life.”—George Will
Best of Ducts
Check out these classics
An Honest Conversation
Grandma painted on slabs of butter
Familiar as Strange: The Paintings of Maya Brym
Share:FacebookTwitterLinkedinTumblrPrint I came upon Maya Brym’s rare breed of paintings by chance. I was flipping though a magazine, and her works reproduced within gave me pause.  They stuck out as odd for our time. Hybrids of still life, abstraction, and nature painting, these pictures radiated a kind of psychological intensity akin to Georgia O’Keeffe or Henri Rousseau—artists whose singular styles bucked the trends of their days.
Thoughts On Getting Ready For Summer
A few years back, pedicures reached a tipping point...
The Puzzle Commission
A week later, I filled my sister in on my Virgin Mary calamity.
Seven Steps To Better Attention
Focusing is critical.
Two Poems
Share:FacebookTwitterLinkedinTumblrPrintThe Civilised Savage Among the ancient ruins strewn with moss Within the decimated architecture Of a forgotten people Lives the civilised savage The balls of his bare feet land on the aged marble Of fallen Corinthian columns As he leaps, apishly Traversing the Hellenistic landscape His white collar lies starched As it hugs the knot of his crimson necktie His muscles wrapped In a three-piece suit of grey barathea Tribal markings Of blue, red and white Decorate his impish visage Hearkening back to the insignia of his cannibal tribe That has since dissolved His hair, pompadoured with mashed yucca and honey Maintains its structure Despite his simian movements Swinging from tree to tree His polysyllabic speech, Constantly interrupted by moans and grunts Even when he unearths his well-worn copy Of Plato’s The Republic And reads it aloud Through my crooked, cracked spectacles * * * Marilyn’s Lips The diptych exalts her noblest feature Half filmic, shades of the silver screen Half palpable, with vibrant red and pink Newsprint lips crookedly smiling, vampish Inked, off-register, coy and seductive Flattened, alienating, out of reach Red and succulent like the tender flesh Of tree-ripened fruit, shimmering, wet Glossy like the pages of magazines Pried up from her white, coquettish face Eerily floating in the ether Like a Science Fiction Double Feature Suspended in time, life-like in their print Barbiturates melt on the tongue between Her swollen lips, oozing down her narrow throat We recite a threnody chant, but still Her lips remain Table of Contents
Four Poems
Share:FacebookTwitterLinkedinTumblrPrintCold Turkey Can’t see no sky —John Lennon We regret to announce that your flight has been delayed by this announcement of regret.  Calendars featuring the anal passages of today’s cabin crew must be paid for.  The hot chocolate isn’t slow.  It’s special. Satirical sonnets on this or any other airline must go over your heads or under the seat in front as the risk of becoming bad observational comedy is high at this festive time. 
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Share:FacebookTwitterLinkedinTumblrPrint Bright Windows Jackhammers rattled the walls with stammered curses & I awoke from a dream of soft-spoken longing–what I want, ungiven.  The window, a rectangle of brilliance I couldn’t enter; thus now, to retain some sense of holiness I go to Tompkins Square, but even the monkey bar set escapes the playground, sneaks in the fenced areas to dance where it says not to tread. 
Three Poems
Share:FacebookTwitterLinkedinTumblrPrintMist On the west side running path mist-ghosts disappear into the future or rise to the surface as an impression of color, or the outline of a limb, wafting close enough that I can see the ballooning of ribs sweaty with effort and the sinking again of the ribs behind the spine— & then the figures drift, sails half-filled with wind, back into grey * The man in black shorts is not too much faster— a slow erasure into fog while my breath grows shallow trying to catch him.
Grandmother’s Vision of the Future
But most maybe they do not want to be dirty, only lazy.
Third Eye
... it’s wise to omit the fact I was in rehab for an eating disorder and a sexual addiction.