3155 (paper, acrylic, glue, ink and wood)

groucho marx

i finally made it back to earth

i’d been sleeping in your hair

my heart filled with roses

my legs folded under the table

scribbling down the loose

thoughts gathered at the corners

of my face

a twig sticking out of my ear

digging deeper i found a nest

and a bowl of sparrow eggs

and a bird the color of butter

eating a loaf of bread

going on and on about 

gorgonzola

i couldn’t stop crying

yet i did finally

and proceeded to build

a gigantic fortress out of

old tires and japanese wigs

i’d sleep there in the winter

after you’d moved to chicago

occasionally

1644 (paper, ink, acrylic, glue on wood)

forty-niners vs the packers

although it is night

i put my face on my face

and drive into the city

my heart sleeping 

in the little bed

in the little house

god built for it

being driven

into the great darkness

in my beautiful car

fish eating my hands

and arms the blood

making bright blue snakes

in the salty sea water

you said you'd call right back

hut one hut two

forty-two fifty-five hut hut

snapping the ball

into the inside 

of your thighs

the feel of leather

i put the phone

in the bag with the rice

and hoped for the best

the love of god II (paper, magazines, string, acrylic paint, glue and wood)

the end of an era

we were stranded in cleveland

angie dickinson and me and the spider monkey

we’d huddle together

to stay warm most nights

the rats nibbling on our feet

the fresh venison laid out on the end tables

the flies in slow lazy circles

buzzing through the tent

she’d tell me stories of when she was starting out in the business

how she’d got her big break in ‘police woman’ 

she’d dated charles dierkop for a while

but the relationship ended in his apparent suicide

she’d always end the story with the question

‘who never dies?’ 

gazing out the hotel’s window

chewing on one of the deer legs

boom (paper, glue, wood, dan winters photo and acrylic paint)

tina turner

all the black girls

at my house

were laying on the floor

taking out their underwear

and wrapping it around

the moon

i threw my phone 

into the ocean

and tore my clothes off

catching all the rays

around my

pool

i’ve been

peeing the entire

time i’ve been writing this

into my pants

and all over

the floor