by pbsartist | Apr 2, 2023 | OPENstudio
I try to capture simplicity in color a rainbow that really only wants for a touch of black upon the bright white page it never quite becomes not in one stroke not in one page-filled. yet I continue to show up with brush and pots of paint like a master working a...
by pbsartist | Mar 31, 2023 | OPENstudio
mysticism is the science of longing i know it is true Today they’re gone Today my heart aches for the space filled by their presence vacated a seat empty a memory floated a guess at what...
by pbsartist | Mar 29, 2023 | OPENstudio
it touched me just now the bouquet the aroma the infusion I know not to which flower it belongs but it wafted across my shoulder blades then tripped up my neck and into my nose hit as I was by delight inexplicable I realized I needn’t have the name the story was...
by pbsartist | Mar 27, 2023 | OPENstudio
in this one place at this one time at this moment I call home the daylilies twitter in the breeze calendula redolent in the bed their yellows and orange like sunshine from the soil too that yellow of the bird for which I can never recall the name so my son suggests...
by pbsartist | Mar 25, 2023 | OPENstudio
what are you doing he asked trying to surrender I said no you’re not; you’re trying to figure it out. solutions do not appear so much as show up there is no value in creasing furrows between the brows we’ve been told there is gold ruched in actions...
by pbsartist | Mar 23, 2023 | OPENstudio
sometimes the work of numbers and box ticking filing and finding small ways in which others can manage forms and letters composed to create order and computations that provide organization the absurdity of human life sometimes overwhelms I walk with Whitman among the...
