splendid arrows
'Let the beauty we love be what we do.'
Jelaluddin Rumi
La fin de l'été (c. 2003-4) ink, elements & grass 11" x 8.5"
Window (2013) montage
Schema for Red Handed (2014) montage/collage
The Troubadour Rebuked by His Lady (2015) montage
Schema for Afternoons at Baiae (2015) montage
Theme & Variations I (2016) montage
Sunglasses of the Divine (Homage to Vermeer) collage (c.1990's) 5" X 5.5"
The Origin of Words collage (c. 2003) 8" X 8"
A Spiritual Journey Requires the Thinnest of Wings collage (2004) 10" X 8"
I Read Only Old Men collage (2003) 10" X 8"
Liminal Edge collage/montage (c.2003)
The Secret montage (c.2006)
Schema for Prisoner of Rain montage (2016)
Schema for Campus Martius (Field of Mars) montage (2016)
ama no gawa (River of Heaven) collage (c.2006)
A Mind of Winter (after Wallace Stevens) collage (c.2006)
No Man is an Island collage/montage (c.2011)
Schema for Aristocracy of Beauty montage (2015)
Schema for Tell Me No Lies montage (2015)
Schema for Aegean montage (2015)
Schema for Shh! The Walls Are Speaking . . . montage (2015)
Tanka
'Sleeping
not sleeping through the long night,
with first light
falls a steady rain
to claim my eyes all day'
after Ariwara no Narihira (825-880)
unpublished
Suitcase
The light through the blinds
is speaking another language.
When I open them, it's evening
with its pewter face,
eyes asquint.
These identical rooftops are the night's tarmac.
When it touches down
the heavy luggage of the day
will be spinning on the turnstile
of a neighborhood street corner
waiting to be picked up.
I find mine, and when I open it on the bed,
an autumn gust blows out.
unpublished
Ulysses's Dogs collage/montage (2006)
The Cartouche for Summer is . . . collage/montage (2014)
Lost in Autumn montage w/acrylic tint (2013)
Tanka
'Sick from desiring her
I spend the whole forenoon in bed
for the world of men
is nothing without love
or even the dream of it'
after Ariwara no Yukihira (c.818-893)
unpublished
Helen
With hair of ripened wheat,
The fields are astonished
At those eyes of blue
That hold Aegean isles in place,
The template men still trace.
unpublished
Tanka
'When I gaze
on flowers in an autumn field
what should my heart tell me,
that it is content, or that its blossoms,
like you, have stolen it?'
after Akazome Emon (fl. 976-1041)
unpublished
Ships of Tarshish montage (2012)
Le Voyage collage/ montage (2014)
Theme and Variations II collage/ montage (2016)
Achilles' Glance montage (2014)
One or Two Days by the Sea collage (2008)
Tales
Wherever you wander
tales sprout out of your sandals’ wake
and over the planet’s long-dead bones
the rag of your shouldering heart
still clothes us well
for voyaging.
The Lillyput Review
Schema for Stargazer (Kachina No. 1) montage (2016)
Waka
Simple,
homely as a wristband made
of woven grass
yet I would live
a thousand years.
after Yamanoe no Okura (666-c.733 ME)
The Lillyput Review
Schema for As Alexander Lay Dying montage (2015)
Poem 14
Alexander
and his horse Bucephalus
made a secret pact
in Pella that summer
like blood brothers
or brothers-in-arms
that immortality
would come
not to one
but both
unpublished
Hieroglyphics of Loneliness montage/collage (2014)
Truth to Power montage/collage (2010)
Green Fire montage/collage (2016)
Semaphore of My Intentions montage (2015)
Cyclops montage (2010)
An Essay on Needless Complexity montage (2017)
Theme and Variations 3 montage (2017)
Mista Blu-Ai montage (2013)