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Canyon Time Broadside from Talking Gourds Bardic Trails Event
Many thanks to Daiva Chesonis at Between the Covers Bookstore in Telluride, CO for creating this broadside of my poem Canyon Time.
Artist Rosie Carter provided the drawing. Rosie and I have been working together on pairing poems with her drawings around the theme of “geoligical time” for a while now. The idea started with the intention to create broadsides and has shifted to include ideas for prints with letterpress elements, maybe a small book. Being that we are both occupied with many other projects, it has been as slow as geological time in terms of ruminating, shifting, and evolving ideas and actually getting to production. I am enjoying the slow ease of it, which feels congruent with the theme. When Daiva asked for content for this broadside, I passed on something Rosie and I had been working with and I like the end result.
Notes From the Shore - Prose Poetry
We are water; we are stone; we are solid and fluid. We are bursting rays uncontainable, yearning to escape the milky prison of consumer numbness —we try to remember— inside the heliographic night, inside yoga studios and juice bars, inside workshops and self-help, looking for something inside, looking for trails of invisible wonder through the city’s slumber, searching deep in the bones of skyscrapers, between the ribs of excess, picking at the toxic leftovers of the brilliance of industry.
Water Will Find You (because you belong here)
I am in a new current; I accept this baptism by whirlwind, this walk into expanses so endless it is like stargazing. snow from distant mountain ranges travels beside me though its path is elusive in this bone-dry vastness, and that moisture is never easy to discover. through Sage, Juniper and Yucca tangled into a tapestry of peculiar geological mishaps—I travel so far that I am suddenly small and unknown but somehow at home; how awe is simply the sudden recognition of place, a sense of belonging to the vastness you had forgotten.
Rewilding: A Return to the Writing Life
I left my writing studio in 2012 after 15 years of creative reverie in the SW Four Corners region of CO and moved to a newly booming but still easy to live in city. I just wanted a break from the creative deep dive and the endless expanse of the Colorado Plateau. I wanted to play in an urban setting; I wanted to be new.