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You might wonder why an artist, writer, writing coach and editor prefers the wordless world—despite the joy of elegant phrasing, compelling characters, and intriguing stories. You see—yes, you can cozy up to the concrete and parade persuasive facts, but the real zing arises out of abstractions. Inward, outward, folded, draped, textured, polished, hard or soft—dark and deep. Abstractions zig & zag—curve & creep. In the lively layers of contrast, lies not the unspeakable, but the experience of the ineffable. Read More »

What transpires high above in the inky indigo heavens? For each grain of sand, 10,000 brilliant stars flicker in the night sky—10,000 of 200 billion trillion. While the moon glows a mere 238,855 miles away, the closest stars to Earth lie about 4.37 light years away (one light-year is about 6 trillion miles). Maybe our infinite memories embed themselves in the stars—both the beautiful & the ugly. Maybe the gnarliest ones get celestially processed & cleansed to dazzle in the moonlight. Read More »

Will the mercurial month of October still be October? // Will the dangerous Santa Anas still stir the sands & sear our nerves—then soothe with a Hollywood sunset? ? Will the leaves still turn from green to gold & crimson? // Where will the glorious red come from? Roses or rubies? Poppies or cherries, cardinals, or coral? Or will AI mimic shades of war—the blood & bleed? // What will AI do with the nectar of truth and malignancy of lies? // Will currency lack currency? How will humans get it, keep it, stockpile it, hoard it, steal it, lack it, or burn it? Or will it burn itself? // Read More »

I guess I’m just hopelessly fascinated by the realities that you can assemble out of connected fragments.
—Junot Diaz

In the blue green vein of my subconscious—a cinematic impulse surges from my human hard drive—with nerve ending touch, soothing & siren sounds. Continuity, cuts, cross cuts, jump cuts and fades stream on demand—scenes dissolve & roll with invisible credits. Hues shift, shadows elongate and delicious textures glisten. Easy to surrender to a silky montage of deeply saturated colors—dicier to disengage visions and visitations (explicit & subliminal) in black & white. Leaping over time and whirling through space, minutes meld, seasons shuffle, lovers & others appear and disappear, while tangles of emotions mingle. Not exactly random connections, but fragments curated with smooth precision from within. I love to try to trick it (my subconscious)—alter the timeline, delete or drop in a sequence, gloss up the outcome—synchronize the flow.

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What if your story generated a shape or a kaleidoscope of shapes? What if a shape performed as a catalyst for your story? What if you shaped your story (real or imagined) to reflect the content and illuminate the truth? Read More »

The present is the ever-moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
—Frank Lloyd Wright

May the illusion of shadows illuminate
And bursts of light in infinite nights, Read More »

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
—Lao Tzu

You can find it in candlelight & firelight
or celestial bodies in an inky sky
You can find it melting in a chameleon’s disguise Read More »

I get high on atmosphere emanating from earth and sky, even higher from the seas and beyond. When I gaze at shadows, I lean into light. When I absorb the spirit of sunset & moonrise, I angle for reflection(s)—inhale the hues of tide. Rock faith in the heartbeat of nature far exceeds my gossamer confidence in earthlings.. Read More »

Writing is trying to know beforehand what one would write if one wrote, which one never knows until afterward. — Marguerite Duras

Alpha Beta–Greek for a mere set of letters (+ an ampersand
Beginnings so humble ‘til names emerge like Delta & Omicron
Calibrated—twice spliced with malignant mutations Read More »

On the eve of the fall Equinox with equal day and equal night, the light and darkness teases us with choice. Will the certainty of uncertainty or the flow of natural flux—surrender or reign? Will the god of orbs give us a second chance? Will the facets of our fortunes blend, bleed or exceed our expectations? Would that I could summon earth, water, fire, air & space in a single vision—handle it like candlelight—and stabilize the vertigo. Perform an intervention on human hubris. Read More »