Category Archive: abstract

June Exhibition: I Will Not Hurt Myself/I Will Not Hurt Others

Exhibition at Franklin Foto, June 2025 I realize it’s been a long time in coming, but work from I Will Not Hurt Myself/I Will Not Hurt Others will finally be seen outside the… Continue reading

All You Need Is Love

It used to be that wherever I traveled, at some point, I would hear the Beatles playing. It was as if they were part of a great worldwide playlist. The band broke up… Continue reading

This Land is Your Land

This machine kills fascists. If wishing made it so. I’ve been working on a new book, a follow up to I Will Not Hurt Myself/I Will Not Hurt Others. It’s the last time… Continue reading

Everyday

February seems to be the unsupportable act,you wait for things to happen; buds to break,or the early death you always fretted, and something mean, bohemian lives in the water, under the skin of… Continue reading

IWNHM/IWNHO: Road Songs

With my family, I drove back and forth across the country, almost since birth. I miss that America of then. It was wilder, more uncertain, disconnected, weirder. Each stop on the road had… Continue reading

IWNHM/IWNHO: Befores and Afters

I’m doubling up with the next segment of I Will Not Hurt Myself/I Will Not Hurt Others, followed up by a second post of recent work. This week, I spotlight the section on… Continue reading

IWNHM/IWNHO: Dance

I do not know these words,they exist in my skin,leaking out like I wasborn to sing spite fortime; my feet do not knowtheir direction, butdrive into the dirtwe drive into the dirt,we taking… Continue reading

IWNHM/IWNHO: Bone

I am the land and the land is me. I keep coming back to the old places to remind myself that my pieces, my bones, my blood, my sands and salt and winds… Continue reading

IWNHM/IWNHO: Native

I’m leapfrogging over the next two sections of the book, whizzing past thoughts of identity and of isolation, mostly because regular readers have seen these on multiple occasions while I worked through a… Continue reading

IWNHM/IWNHO: True Love

Sharp-eyed readers will likely recognize elements incorporated here from earlier incarnations. But this time I’ve got it. Really. I won’t fuss with them anymore. I mean it this time. There is this ideal… Continue reading