pavlovs--daughter

I've never been to Albania, but I once painted a painting of an Albanian forest. I took some liberties with the mountains & streams, filled in the spaces I could not recall from photographs. I abandoned the painting on the side of the road in Portland. Last I heard a couple young artists found it & hung it on their cream-colored wall, and all that green really pulled the room together.       So I heard. I was supposed to sell this painting. I was supposed to send this painting to auction where some wealthy man would have bought it on a whim and hung it (on a whim) in his library, along with bo

i am suffocated by skin. my bones cannot                              Breathe,my veins(acidic) long to escape from the                                                                

i am pricked by pine needles. i am filled with their charred scent, cannot forget how they        Glowed                                                    &                         c        

Psilocybin    seeps into the          ansel adams                  h                  a                  n                  g                  i  &#

Smokesleeps    with me        right         b                 side          me                        curls its head               on my chest Smoke wakes me          by   

My spine is a string. I vibrate, resonate, My body is a vessel of sound. I am yours to play: hold me down, I will tune myself to you, I will succumb to your touch like piano keys. Lovingly with the bow you tease me. The curvature of my body secured against your hips, I tremble as fingers pluck each vertebrae down my spine. I drink the sweat from your hands like wine As you caress my neck, Skin soft and forbidden as horsehair. On the stage stripped bare, If you sing you may use my voice. We can sink through the cracks of the stage floor. A frenzy of fingers thrills me to the core; You reduce me to wooden shards. I am plucked f

i am Clean. i am newborn baby Clean, untainted by filthy air and dirty words. i am as Clean as new snow, as cottononaclothesline and you pinned me up, you made me crisp and white and fresh. i am hospital Clean, new sheets Clean, hotshowerwithsoap            Clean like the sacrament: bleach clean, poison clean. this bed is Clean, these hands are clean and my mouthlipstonguehair             are Clean as a newborn                  &#

                        L                        O                        V                        E i like this word. i will caress the bend of the L, fit my lips around the O, cut my teeth on the corners of the V, lick each finger of the E. i like this word. no holier four letters do i know. L, like our bodies twisting together O, the shape my mouth forms, my eyes, my V is legs parting and arrows pointing as E we both scream in one roar of release.

I poured six months down the drain back East Those New England winters were too harsh for me Boston lost me amongst the skyscrapers; Misplaced my number, examined others. I went down to the Cape to visit the ocean The crisp Atlantic with its fervent motion. I waded in waist-deep till my lips turned blue And my fingers trembled, of the same hue. No strength left for one frantic swim, I stumbled out of the water, let the ocean win. It took six months for me to see The Atlantic was just too cold for me. Come spring I fled the dreaded East In search of warmer waters to thaw my frozen feet. I stumbled upon a town called Santaree, Ki