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Sketchbook # 19: Loren Munk

It occurred to me that Loren Munk’s paintings must take some planning and boy, was I right! For his ability to picture Time and Space in an ingenious, gorgeous way,  he deserves a chapter in […]

What Meets The Eye

What Meets the Eye

Trompe l’Oeil Below Canal Street

It seems that the “Cubism/ Trompe l’Oeil” show at The Met has had immediate effect——well, not the Cubism part, just the trompe l’oeil part, three out of four galleries I visited the other day were […]

Der Defätist / The Defeatist

Der Defätist / The Defeatist

cat’s watershed

word not a finished thing but sketchy shuffle & stomp sound barrier Whomp edelweiss pirates oh, might can bless your heart let’s fake deep state inequality slavery legacy succession ulterior motives translation well, goopy saragassum […]

Der Defätist / The Defeatist

glass beads

  Billions of tonnes of water & they are only interested in what i’m wearing underneath my glass beads don’t matter just movement that follows logical sequence this grueling exercise of sequins my party dress […]

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Bad Kitty

Bad Kitty

BAD KITTY AND THE TOOTHACHE

A toothache, thought Bad Kitty, is like someone else’s dog scratching at your guest-bedroom door all night. A toothache is a cold vibrating funnel sucking in the undone chores (the unanswered emails, the phone calls […]

Letters to the Editor

Parables

Parables

Parable for Our Times

  Michele and I were swimming our laps in adjoining lanes at the city pool on 25th street. When she passed me going the other way, I playfully reached under the lane divider and stroked […]