Poetry & Art
Things do not have to be perfect to be beautiful. Like an eclectic collection of images, or a mosaic that’s much more charming with all its diverse elements all together, each piece with its own distinctive character gives a Whole Character that is greater beyond that which any one piece could offer on its own.
Poetics
My poetry orbits the image of eyes and theme of perception. Always motivating my work is the impulse to illuminate experience through the creative act. In so doing, I seek to expand the horizon of the field of perception, and to reconcile the contradictions within that area of illumination.
The Art Connection
My relationship with art is meditative and therapeutic. It's about reaching that space within me where I go quiet and just be. I collect items headed for the trash heap and breathe new life into them by transforming them into pieces of Art. These pieces are often intertwined with poems I wrote in parallel time sequence.
Publications
Essays & Articles
"If I Only Could, I'd Make a Deal With God," Fjords Review, forthcoming 2024
"Wonderfully Weird: Gregangelo Museum," 2024
Poetry
"Earth-Dirge," Issue: Unbound, 2021, Disquiet Arts
"Dark Night of the Soul," The Opiate, Summer 2022 Vol. 30
"The Green Poem," Mary: A Journal of New Writing, Summer 2020
"I Seek Peace," The Oracle, XX, 2022 (print, page 46)
"Two Gates for Ghostly Dreams," The Metaworker, September 10, 2021
"A Glass Darkly," The Opiate, Summer 2022 Vol. 30 (online & print)
"The Queen of Death," Global Poemic, July 2021
"Sweet Oblivion" and "Krishna's Mouth," Modern Literature, July 4, 2022
"Εγω Ειμι Εγω (I Am I)," Calliope on the Web, Issue 169, Fall 2020
"Angels," Calliope on the Web, Issue 172, Summer 2021
"Syllogism (or the Logic of Illusion)," Matter, Issue 31, July 2022
"Faith, A New Definition," Calliope on the Web, Issue 171, Spring 2021
April 2, 2023 at Art House in Berkeley, CA; Videography by Victor Owens.