Susan Gibb on Tereza

It is the control of the relationship that is the lightness or weightiness that is at question here for Tereza. The burden she claims to carry which weighs on her, that is, the knowledge of his infidelity and attitude towards love and lovemaking, may in fact be the opposite; the freedom of not having to make that decision. Yet she is about to test that theory as she flirts with the notion of indiscretions of her own.

Jesse Abbot has a way with stanza breaks. This is from his September 23rd p.o.a.m.:

May the drunk sun of paradox rise

in churches that banish it to Limbo & its kind.
May some limbs in which we linger nights
be there to comfort grieving mums

of war by day, the tears deposited
as honest as proprietary lovers’ clues. (italics mine)

“grieving mums / of war by day” has a smooth set of jumps.

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I’d like to announce the publication of our book, 100 Days.

This is the final and deluxe version of the 100 Images project by my collaboration with Carianne Mack. It’s a pretty wild and heavy volume.

We’ve lost Reginald Shepherd and David Foster Wallace.

The 100 Images Project is complete. The show cards are out. All invited.

Here are the relevant links:

Carianne Mack
Steve Ersinghaus

Please explore. Hope to see you at the opening.

This is odd, and oddly typical. Land in Hudspeth County can kill:

Driving down grown-over, washed out, rough roads that Sunset Ranches carved out of the desert, crumbling homes, half-built cinder block structures, weather beaten campers and recreational vehicles speckle the landscape.

Mahmoud Darwish has passed.

But when my words became

honey…

flies covered

my lips!…

This latest by Carianne is color rich and subtly dark, like something happening at night. It was worth two poems, although it was really a matter of being unable to pick between two poems that sort of tumbled out onto the canvas. It’s such a concentration that it provided opportunity to play with further compressive leaps.

Carianne Canoing

Carianne Painting