==Strategies of X==

Gravity of Mind, acrylic on paper and linen, 24" x 16" © 2005 Patched Realms, acrylic on paper and linen, 24" x 16" © 2005 (private collection)

The Creations of Sound If the poetry of X was music, So that it came to him of its own, Without understanding, out of the wall Or in the ceiling, in sounds not chosen, Or chosen quickly, in a freedom That was their element, we should not know That X is an obstruction, a man Too exactly himself, and that there are words Better without an author, without a poet, Or having a separate author, a different poet, An accretion from ourselves, intelligent Beyond intelligence, an artificial man At a distance, a secondary expositor, A being of sound, whom one does not approach Through any exaggeration. From him, we collect. Tell X that speech is not dirty silence Clarified. It is silence made still dirtier. It is more than an imitation for the ear. He lacks this venerable complication. His poems are not of the second part of life. They do not make the visible a little hard To see nor, reverberating, eke out the mind On peculiar horns, themselves eked out By the spontaneous particulars of sound. We do not say ourselves like that in poems. We say ourselves in syllables that rise From the floor, rising in speech we do not speak. --Wallace Stevens

Summer Mirage, acrylic on linen, 26" x 18" © 2005

Snow Dreams, acrylic on linen, 26" x 18" © 2005

Sun Escapades, acrylic and gocco on paper and linen, 30" x 40" © 2005

Mental Break, acrylic on paper and linen, 18" x 10" © 2005

End Game, acrylic on linen, 18" x 10" © 2005

Night Vision, acrylic and prismacolor on black board, 17 1/8" x 11" © 2005

Night Strategies, acrylic and prismacolor on black board, 17 1/8" x 11" © 2005

Thought Borders, acrylic, gocco and watercolor on paper and canvas, 40" x 24" © 2005