Totem. St Louis Noir #85

Golden Hour

Noni. Feat Diamond. 2017. St Louis Noir #27.

Clementis by Shadow Light

See you too

Heat. 2015

Changly is on the Steps

That runt dick, he saidt, lives down the street in a dark, needy, nasty shack. Needs attention, its a patch, like him eth. Runt lawn a shadow. No anything but dust on dirt. No pretty there, no light to it. Man, you fall in lookin at it.
Me: Coffee?
Changly: Yeah, mud like that, that runt dick you tossed.
Me (laughing): Changly, would you like coffee!?

Broken Coffin or Where you crawled

Crisp/y

You were a only bruise that faded. I am skin.

The Burden of Straight Seeing

Wick Draft. St Louis Noir # 731

East Belleville

Greek Revival and Italianate homes. The architecture in Belleville is fabulous.

Brick in BLLVLL

From a brickyard in Edwardsville that is still making brick.

Pretty Bellie

So pretty she kissed herself in the mirror and held the pose while I laughed and laughed.

St Louis Noir # 857

I love thread.

All kinds of thread.
This is DMC Floche, a twisted thread made from the finest long fiber cotton, mercerized to create a beautiful finish.

I love Paper

I collect old notebooks with a stitched binding: those days are gone.
I love paper.

Early

My sleep was loaded with you.
We were in a rotating landscape of houses, alleys, garages.
Significant that the alleys were concrete and not black asphalt for white settings dominate my perfect dreams.
The scenes kept shifting but we remained together. We were consistently and successfully dodging something intangible.
You were awkward which charmed me and oddly decisive.
I thought you were tolerating me when a hidden affection escaped through your hands. I caught some of it when an abbreviated smile landed in my hair.
I woke rubbing my head and listening to the cries from various crows as they passed over the house.
I woke smiling.

Working Silence

What's in her heart, she didn't put there, I saidt.