Artist Statement

STEP ONE

Verbs crawl, leak, bleed, simmmer in a viscous broth, adjectives and adverbs weakly blend in a luminescent flagon.
There are nouns in numbered containers, filigreed cabinets, marked test-tubes, ziploc baggies.
Sometimes prepared packages of clauses and phrases.
Cliches powdered and used as cheap filler.

STEP TWO

I am. (a poet)

I do. (this because I have to)

Sometimes words. (follow me home)

Sometimes I. (chase them over:
a desert, a savannah, a rainforest, a parched and cracked-crust
mud camoflauging bogs, oceans, quicksand.)

I always. (sink. Sometimes
something

----------------------------floats)

STEP THREE

An unwatched pot boils dry.

Ocean an unbridled horse.

We held a wake for
the moon, and despite being lassoed by
a cliche, she floated out of her unhinged coffin.


STEP FOUR

Backspace. Type. Type. Type. Backspace.

Cut and paste. Paste and backspace. Type.

Cut. Cut. Cut. I am a director with a stutter. Cut.

STEP FIVE

Echo chamber.



STEP SIX
Repeat. Do not rinse. Re.
Peat.