Keyboards
Find middle C, I told myself. I should be able to remember at least that. My fingers can find their way through a C+ scale. But I don’t remember how to do a D…
Pedestal
Hand in hand we haunt the museum, visiting Manet, Degas, Gauguin; wandering from paintings to sculpture; giggling like embarrassed adolescents at the nudes…
Inspired.
“I miss creative writing.” That was it, I let the words come out and suddenly it felt like the worlds heaviest weight had been lifted from my shoulders. “I…
An Ugly Body for a Pretty Soul
My body is a vessel for a soul. Or perhaps it is more of an obstacle, for my soul to maneuver around. One day I hope to find a lover that will see my body as I…
A Live Canvas
The first thing that came back was her hearing. An incessant popping noise along with half of a dozen voices. Then she could feel the popping coincide with…
they say
“A picture paints a thousand words” but nobody ever writes a thousand words on that wee bit of paper that hangs next to every portrait. (Ehe, touché!)
In Euphoria...
In Euphoria things are different. There is a steady beat beneath my feet. There is an open horizon, two suns and a star and one shining moon. We speak in a…
New Deal of the Mind
*New Deal of the Mind* So read the title of the set of papers that lied in front of him. He reached forward and fingered the sides, almost as if checking to…
The Poet
He had a dream, from whence he could not tell, It came to him as he slumbered here. Ay! Ay! The joyous ride he knew so well, From distant memories to him…
Word Zombie
He was a man reborn. Resurrected, in fact, by the powers of creation. The energy filled him and controlled him. His words danced the way eddies swirl in…
Blood Artist
Finding that he was alone he spoke to himself. When he received no response he pulled at his skin with his broken fingernails drawing blood that trickled onto…
The Painting
It is the most famous work of art in the Gallery: a painting of a woman dressed in blue standing by the seashore, staring into the distance as the sun rises or…
Curve and Multiply
You are never who you wanted to be. Lent time, shoulders, fame and money, you did with it what you dreaded. College laughed at you, and while you garnered high…
Beauty and Elegance
Colors, sounds, feelings, they all have one thing in common.They are art. No matter how big or small or how dull or bright art is art. It is a skill only some…
Red Lipstick
She took out her glossy red lipstick and applied another layer. Her sinister eyes glared at him as he cast his downwards. “I can explain,” he mumbled under his…
Needs
I was here. I’d searched long and hard for him, the best in the world at tebori, traditional Japanese tattoos. “I want...” “I will not give you what you…
Once There Was A Poem That Resembled Snoopy
New info Is so simple. Some cripple Drinking Ripple Couldn’t Forest Stump The undisputed sorest chump Who sings the longest layer Of a song. He twangs A rusty…
Blood-Red Paint
He splashed the red paint onto the canvas. He had to work quick. The paint he was using seemed to dry faster than he wanted, but it gave such a rich hue. He…
By: Tires
Outlines Of power lines Shadow the concrete Like looping swerves Left written in the street By the tires of artistic driver’s “Yeah, you’re right it does! And…
A Reputation to Uphold...
I step back, and take a look at my work. Not bad, if I do say so myself. A little different than my usual, but still recognizable as mine. The painting spans…