December 22 2024

untitled (2021)

December 8 2024

self portrait (2021)

December 1 2024

untitled (2019)

November 24 2024

untitled (2022)

untitled (2012)

November 16 2024

pain & love (2024)

autumn (2024)

November 14 2024

untitled (2012)

October 26 2024

untitled (2024)

October 21 2024

untitled (2022)

October 11 2024

untitled (2024)

Summer came in a dizzy cloud of exhaust and passed lightheaded and half-remembered like a dream in the stark autumn air. It was now September and each clammy gas pump grew tense and pearl-like in his hand. Again the same question arose; that damned old question, both sudden and absolute in it's asking: where to?

October 2 2024

untitled (2023)

September 12 2024

perhaps (eventually) [lyrics] (2023)

perhaps eventually
on a night like this
again will i recall
that stumble of a kiss
perhaps eventually
if the mood is right
if the stars are high
if the moon is bright
we'll take this roundabout babe
from my weary mouth
and i'll take ya somewhere
far out
where we can sleep in peace babe
an hour or the weekend
we're going nowhere
right now

August 27 2024

untitled (2023)

July 30 2024

untitled (2020)

July 22 2024

untitled (2023)

June 26 2024

903t.wav (2020)

903t.wav (2020)

June 17 2024

untitled (2023)

June 9 2024

Self-Portrait (2015)

June 2 2024

untitled demo (2024)

untitled demo (2024)

if i can sail
this thing in
it can sink
on the shore
and my compass
can spin
all the way
to your door

believe i
found another fountain
with a sweet skinny dip
and i fell off
the mountain
with a rose
in my lips

wonder on after all
can ya feel into my voice?
find a whisper in the noise
guess i got no other choice
guess i got no other choice

May 29 2024

Silver Glow [lyrics] (2021)

yea i saw you
on the screen
admired your
style
of necessity
and though
i play myself
repeatedly. well
it don't interrupt
my dream

silver glow
still alone
what happened to hollywood?

i imagined
a role with her
through some
pictures
i have seen
she cuts her lines and
lets her body speak

meanwhile
we believe
the fantasy
but i wonder
just what the
camera keeps

silver glow
still alone
what happened to hollywood?

in the end when
the credits roll
and the crowd has
disappeared
feeling out of character
and wiping up the tears
and it's strange how
a story is more real
and i wonder
just where we'll be
next year

silver glow
still alone
what happened to hollywood?
silver glow
screen is broke again
you don't need hollywood

May 20 2024

Hamlet in the Bardo (2024)

i dreamt
i executed
Bigfoot

but i didn't recover
the body
nor produce
an impression

not to ape
that revelation
amorphous form
set in type

to bear
the weight of
enterprise
and reconcile
discovery

in the verdant
half-light
the crickets
sing
the ellipsis

May 14 2024

untitled (2023)

black cats in the firelight
tuxedo songs
a wine-dark sky
a straying spark
that caught my eye
again...

May 4 2024

"Graze" pt. 1 (2024)

In the dusky morning light, the ink-dark curtains of firmament are drawn up with an air of fluid renewal. Splotches dim and distant come to glow a magic lantern—death taking his head off again.

"Why is it you reckon these horses still carry on, Pat? What with being put out here to pasture and all, I mean," the boy's hand moved gently across the taut neck of a mare at the edge of the enclosure. Scattered throughout the field were several other horses; some gathered around a steel feeder picking at a round bale, others faltering about and flopping down beneath the warm, fragrant April morning.

"There ain't no decision for a horse, George. You know that. It's a goddamned force of instinct. But for that one," motioning to the white horse who was now nudging her snout between the rails, "it won't matter long. Be put down soon, kicked a stable boy last week and they think he got brain damage. Weren't the first time either, but he came up fast on her bad side, and she bucks easy since she lost her eye. He was just the lucky sonuvabitch who didn't get out of the way."

George took a step closer and looked down over the cracked wooden fence into the horse's fluttering and reticent face. As it turned its bowed head, he glanced upon its missing eye—a smooth dark crater. The other, a deep and smoldering auburn globe that seemed to look past him and out across the prairie with a kind of primeval knowing.

"Jesus Christ," George said. "Is he gonna be alright?"

"Who? Oh, Davey? Well you know him, always been a bit slow I suppose but we'll see about that."

"We'll see?"

"He'll be coming back to work tomorrow. An if he ain't much worse, I figure he oughta be the one to do it." Pat said, lifting his right hand with his thumb raised and forefinger extended, miming a gun.

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