The council on free coffee convened
Houseless, their energy and mine
Rattling off the officer stationed
By the locked door.
A large man stumbled in
And when he tried lay down
You could hear his veins shatter
Like a brittle rotted oak
Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48, 2023
Houseless, their energy and mine
Rattling off the officer stationed
By the locked door.
A large man stumbled in
And when he tried lay down
You could hear his veins shatter
Like a brittle rotted oak
Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48, 2023
I'll write (generally, fires)
Acrylic on Canvas, 36 x 48, 2022
New Bern Clock Tower
Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48, 2022
Trick me into dancing again
In a dark kitchen
Convince me to run across the freeway
I brought you a sign — blue feathers
Criss crossed on the sidewalk
so We’ll quietly blackout together
Sipping each other’s eyes
I’ll keep calling
While you drive West through The mountain
With river and your notes
On your mind turned inside out
Fossil hunting, fantasy humming
Tune a string, and stick hymns
On your dashboard
I’ll be East across the Appalachia
By now,
Painting you from memory
Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 48, 2022
Two years ago,
I saw her leaning up against some rock
In the summer sun,
her face red
Short cut blonde hair
and straight leg jeans
Jack had brought her along to the river
Which was slow and glittering
I took off my shirt, embarrassed but
Trying to not be embarrassed
And sat on the beach
Thumbing cider and Marlboros
Watching them swim out to the island
Against the current
Jack never did take off his shirt
She wasn’t interested in Jack
Or anybody else really, but
We were both wondering
If she would fall in love
With either of us
Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48, 2022
Got off shooting him in the knee
My grandpa bent the gun in half
I’ll never learn all the songs
He used to sing us you see
They’re buying up all the iodine
With a bull moose staring back at me
My dad broke all the glasses
And Jack still sings alone
Steal it all off the line
I keep stealing your eyes
I need em you see
To lie down and sleep for awhile
I’m broken memory
I’ll paint her
On the wetland
What was she praying for?
Diptych, Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 72, 2022
Fortune Cookie #1
A distant friendship could
Begin to look more promising
She said her body doesn’t
Want me to move to North Carolina
Half price cigarettes
And $900 for a two bedroom
But what’s the use for second bedroom?
She keeps weaving on a loom
When’s she going to cut it off?
Fortune Cookie #2
You have the makings of a Leader —
take charge
I can only take charge of my life
Between the hours of 10 am - 1 pm
Tuesday through Thursday
The rest of the time
I’m recovering from my decisions
On a few
Drunk dials
With my father
Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48, 2022
Figures smack of being aimless
Look at red wildflowers and gross war
We’ll ignore it too
Years ago,
Of the suck of the hollow
Beneath her knee
God came and went when I was 14
Because the church has dealbreakers
Spring spits up color like a drunk
To be alive is to suck air and silt
At the very least,
Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 48
Look at red wildflowers and gross war
We’ll ignore it too
Years ago,
Of the suck of the hollow
Beneath her knee
God came and went when I was 14
Because the church has dealbreakers
Spring spits up color like a drunk
To be alive is to suck air and silt
At the very least,
Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 48
I keep painting those I love
To keep them around
A little longer
Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 48, 2022
Father
Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 48, 2022
Sister smoking in that damn garage
Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48, 2022
On the bus outside Portland
Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48, 2022
Maddy and Jack
Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48, 2022