Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

pine trees on cars
where mountain bikes have been
it's only November

boys play past dusk the smell of water in a garden hose foggy morning breaths sun burned off by noon bay patterns near the coast the heat of pure sun black shirt, black pants sweat of coffee and smokes still over dragonflies pretending grass is water anytime is now old moored boat puddles in dank mo...

robin hops the cut grass
earthworm in its beak
my cigarette dangles


three times a night
I wake to sweaty dreams
the window is closed

wires everywhere
tangles of black, putty grey
neither printer works

cursor blinks
faster than my heartbeat
blank pages

coca-cola zero
less filling
tastes ....

Cold and waiting for enlightenment, the seeker reads the sacred texts. Gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha! The form of emptiness does not warm his heart, the sutra only goes to mind. A crow caws, brutal to the ears, resounds deep in the cavities of his heart, and he is warned. He puts down t...

When Johnny Hodges hits the sweet notes
and Ella scats How High the Moon
I always am thinking of
you.

Parenthetical Style Parentheses tell you what to leave out and yet sneakily include their own statements, like a clever lawyer or a worried mother. You are going out with Will? (not that I don’t like him). They tell secrets we’d rather not disclose: I want to get fit (though I don’t exercise) or wor...

'round midnight
silky saxes
boozy broads
swoon and croon
we real cool, we
skip school, we
jazz june, we
die soon

I love Rothko and didn't recognize it. Thanks for posting it. And taking the trouble to respond to my post.


Do you like orange?

is this an original work of yours? amazing! thanks

Orange bothers me. It is not only the word itself-- after all it doesn't rhyme. Oh-raa-nn-geh sounds pushy just like the color. Its loudness bothers me. Orange is the color of emergency of alert and alarm, of dying trees, of silly great pumpkins only to be squashed in goopy splats on asphalt. But on...

no key for a rusted lock
on the crawl space door
rats nest warm inside

large drop rings a puddle
her hand between a bottle
of whiskey and pills


seagulls above a parking lot
an abandoned truck
with a bullet hole

spring break
home from the front
without a hand