Rendering the Quiet
To render dynamic the quiet, an orange dreams through a blue blanket in a basket of oriental aromas. The stranger arrives and places her soft hand in mine. There are transformations and dusky...
View ArticlePost Number 100 – Ta Dahhh! + “The 100 #1″–‘going’
This is my 100th post and I am celebrating with 100 sips of my favorite agave juice, taking 100 conscious breaths, thinking 100 good thoughts and compiling a list of 100 art projects that I may publish...
View ArticleNight Dance
Haunted, he wears his ghost lightly, woven on phantom air. Haunted, his dream is delighting in an old, forgotten waltz, dancing through fractured clouds, to be close, to be...
View ArticleIncubus…
Incubus by clinock. 18″x 22″. Graphite, Conte and Charcoal, on paper. Poem by clinock. I sometimes have my doubts / That when she smiles She smiles for me / Or for some wild entity Who, with hidden...
View ArticleReunion Inesperada…
Reunion Inesperada by Clinock. Memory resurrected on a city street. Suddenly you in the evening crowd Calling my name – I turn and A thousand faces negate themselves And disappear – only...
View ArticleFull Moon…
Full Moon by clinock. 18″ x 24″. Pastel and conte on Paper. 2012. So, we’ll go no more a roving So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon be still … Continue...
View ArticleWindow Interlude – Flag Waver
Wave on little man, wave on against broken blues and black beyonds, wave on. Stalwart your banner, loyal your stance against the cutting edge of change and the coming collapse. Wave on little man,...
View ArticleWindow Interlude – Reflections
There is mystery here induced by light, not difficult or rare, a pedestrian sight, yet magical none the less, drawing the eyes deep into dream. It’s a sleight of vision, a riddle of the gods, solved...
View ArticleWindow Interlude – Who is Leslie Emile?
who is this mystery behind the weird shaped window? is she the artist or the portrait? why the incongruous splodges of earth tones and greens? is that a cat roughly made? and what oh what is behind the...
View ArticleWindow Interlude – caught in the act…
mirrors can be windows too through which we catch ourselves in the moment of seeing ourselves in the act of meeting ourselves catching the moment of seeing ourselves caught in the act. Poem and photo...
View ArticleWho Am Him Really Anywhy? 1.
Self-Portraits from The Archives #1. He is - slowly reabsorbed, dissolving, vanishing, cell by cell into the soil and sap and dank ridges of planetary mulch. He is – rooting into earth, forest and...
View ArticleWho Am Him Really Anywhy? 2.
Self-Portraits from The Archives #2. melted in the heat of you, my colours intensified, body liquified, richly intoxicated in your green agave eyes, flesh electrified sparking blue lights, my face no...
View ArticleBirthday Poem
After all is said and done it’s just a rainbow ‘round the sun, another ring-toss ‘round a star, a bear stuck in a honey jar, an ancient number scratched in rock, a ticking tap, a dripping clock. Years...
View ArticleA Case of You (1)
Melted by passion, colours intensified, body liquified, intoxicated by absinthe eyes, flesh electrified, sparking blue, face is gone reformed by your hands. What I become ignites fires, nourishes the...
View ArticleA Case of You (2)
Full moon in May. Sensuality blossoms on your skin as it rises to meet me. I am alert and vigilant as oceans swell and burst, as moonlight binds the limbs to the night bird’s cry and the rain and...
View ArticleA Case of You (3)
On days when you go more distant than far, my skin is pulled to you, stretched outward as if to make that final supreme effort to find you and stop you from disappearing into that cloud of unknowing...
View ArticleA Case of You (4)
it is not so long since you fell away into unexpected distance and fragmented silence, and yet, as in knowing you, it fills a lifetime. this summer night wraps me in your absence, warm and stitched...
View ArticleA Case of You (5)
Sunday Haiku – Between: everyday magic she opens between flowers enchanting this man. you on a blue raft between blue sky and sea dressed in blue silence. smushing strawberries between stained lips...
View ArticleA Case of You (6)
Focus; move the eye or heart a fraction of an inch and the whole universe changes within this gleaming arc. Concentrate; in moments of inattention brides are stolen, the careful line smudged and the...
View ArticleFull Moon
Not all full moons are filled with romance, some radiate madness and partings… Poem by George Gordon Byron – Lord Byron. 1788–1824. Interpreted by Leonard Cohen. Drawing: Full Moon by clinock. 18″ x...
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