Neon Jungle

the neon eye sees all after dark

neon moon should totally be the name of a indie rock band

toucan yes?

i wanna be like you-o-o

highlighter paint?

Red Covered Bridge

i kept trying to choose a different, better photo, but this one wants to be seen

i’m going to have to start doing experimental photography. these are boring as hell.

One Little Tree

quick, little, drawing of a pine tree out my back window.

Poems for the Week (7/6)

The schedule is now more like a rough outline. Anyway, this is what I wrote this week

1:
I wonder what I’ve done to permanently injure someone else
And I never knew.
I wonder who’s memories I haunt
And if our spirits cross in each other’s memories to wave hello to a friendly face.

2:
I knew a girl with my first name.
I thought she should keep it.
It fit her.
It fit her far better than it fits me.
I’ve always thought of it like my body, a trap instead of one together.

3:
I’ve found my temporary freedom card in an odd place.
It was under the seat of the old car.
I plug my phone into my car and let music play.
I sing as loud as I want driving to work.
I sing off, I constantly rewind, I’ll listen to that part again.
I bear no one’s standards. I get yell and howl and screech.
Only where no one hears me – that’s as strong as I am.

4:
I pushed myself into the cracks so that she wouldn’t notice me, and I had an excuse to be shy.
My Mom usually forgot about me. I thought that has a nice ring to it.
So I wouldn’t draw attention or ask for, then I could bemoan my state.
But you can’t tell her that. You can’t blame her for anything. Don’t you know what she went through?
We take the blame, and smile at you, and add another edge, next to our broken teacups.

5:
The first time I met you, we sat on the floor off the right wing of the art building. I cut cardboard and you sketched lines.
The first time you schooched over toward me, I flinched when you touched my arm.
I told you, you shouldn’t smoke, and you asked me why I cared.
You played guitar for me by the naked lady fountain and I stared at our Converse.
You said you wanted to be an anesthesiologist because they made the most money.
I told you, you can’t buy a suit jacket that falls that far down your wrists.
Then we just stopped running into each other. And I blamed me, my defects, something wrong, prolonging the incapacitation of confidence. I read somewhere that if they really want you they go after you.
My number hasn’t changed.

6:
I always think, if you’d have just told me,
By this point, I’d be able to stand on my own two feet.
Instead of amounting to debt and new excel sheet lines in inventory.

7:
Next time, you tell me you’re never drinking again.
What do I say?
Good. I’m glad?
What do I do when you go on a bender?
Do I just sit and wait to remember all the times you told me you’d stop after college?
Go on, brush me off, I’m not important.
When do you take me seriously? Is there something unserious about me?
What do I say when you ask for another twenty just to cover tonight?
Don’t brush me off. Please.
No, you know what? I’ve done all I can.
Destroy yourself now. That was a command not an insult.

8:
I don’t let anyone speak to me like that.
But I’m tied to you, I need your money.
So I say nothing.
I add another tack to my miserable, and say
You could have prevented this, you could be somewhere else by now,
If you weren’t you.

9:
It’s rained for three straight days.
So I wore black jeans in summer, to say,
Hello sky, I commiserate with you.

10:
You condemned my curiosity. I will not absolve you of that.
You mock whatever isn’t your standard.
I use that tool now. I know how to make people feel ashamed of trifles, because you taught me.

Over Her Shoulder

i think i like this one. i just can’t get her bottom cheekbone to look quite right, oh well, but i think i like the empty space of the canvas length, today at least, tomorrow i’ll be thinking, why on earth didn’t i crop that?

Food Truck Lines

i went to a food truck festival.

i know, you’re super surprised. i have people in a photograph.

It’s in the Eyes

i debated and debated whether or not i should include that wisp or hair on the left. i left it in, i thought it fit, don’t ask me to explain, she seems more there by not being there, if that makes sense. it doesn’t. oh well. debate at your own will.

Bird from Far Away

a little sketch of a lot of white.         (p.s. this drawing came from a photo by Davide Ragusa called “Eagle in the Sky.” i found his work on barnimages, which is a collection of cc0 photographs.)

May Flowers Brought By Showers

Ok. It’s official. I am the worst schedule keeper ever. My poor white rabbit.

bloooo sky

bunny’s eye view aka got mud on mah jeans

fancy frolicking trees share with us their flowers. i think overall this was a nice trip to the park. very nice indeed.

A Bit Dressed

i wanted to title this “dress distressed,” but i thought that was a little too alliterative, so instead i’ve explained it down here in the italicized text. that’s a hairtie on her arm in case you were wondering, which you weren’t but now i’ve made you look again