artist's book, preview

early revision, poem currently untitled

America's age-all        abundance!
           
            Come!
   
    Consider the
    leafy-rose milk
    dripping thru holes in Mary's breast
   
while she (the now of old) lays belly-up in her living room
    thumbing over her floor-length housecoat
    containing:            1 pack of Virginia Slims
                                  1 wad of cat hair
                                  1 lipstick, used

The sonic sons,
    (a lawyer, a bank robber)
    hold the child's dark ear
    ask her to speak gentle the moon or manger:

"What if we were to act through number?
Change will occur through the calculation of your oddity -
Speak us planets, woman. The country is conquered."

She                revised, domesticated,
    is unlovely
        wetting herself to the dust squall mirrored bird.

summer 2011

This will serve as a reminder. My friend Anna and I have set goals. These are those goals:

1. Start a talk show called "A mornin' cup with Anna and Christl"

2. Do yoga in the park.

3. Lift ourselves out of sleep at a decent hour to complete above.

4. Get muscle-man fit.

5. Find the cupcake cart.

6. Sit around, lovin' life, eating cupcakes from the cupcake cart.

Failure will not occur. 

On two other notes: my friend Maxwell got me on the idea of doing a project together fashioned after traditional story-time radio. I will update more about this in the future as I'm (currently) near the end of my semester and too busy to breathe. I'd love to leave it up to him for the time being (I know he'd do an amazing job) but I planted the seed and should involve myself.

On March 20th of this year I took part in a live-writing collaboration titled "An American Life in Writing". The work of myself and some other lovely folks is now available in print! You can purchase a copy of An American Life in Writing: Live Writing Series Volume 1 for $7.43 on Blurb. I've had a chance to look through the book in it's printed form and I think everything turned out very nicely. There will be more volumes and an anthology to come.

uh-oh.

I haven't had much time this week to do anything, but here is the cover for the book I just completed. The content is an experiment in melding fiction/prose/poetry. Much of the work considers dreams, nostalgia, historical figures, religion and American life. I can't say I love it, but we'll see.

Thanks to the poor friends I bombarded with readings. I appreciate the time you spent and all the lovely feedback. I am yours, always.