Visiopoetics

From POЗA И КРЕСТ (Rose and Cross), by Aleksandr Blok, 1913.  Translated from the Russian by Vladimir Nabokov (except for the volume title, which I am inappropriately proud of translating all by myself).

All is disaster and loss.
What does the future conceal?
Set up your rough old sail
mark with the sign of the Cross
your breastplate of steel.

As I illustrate for Demockeracy this week, Obama goes over the top in putting together his team of rivals.

Artwork is oils on 12″ x 24″ stretched canvas, currently on display at Enoteca (downtown Charlottesville) through December.

HO

+ HO

+ HOLLY

+ JOLLY

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SPIRIT

Artwork is oils on 24″ x 36″ stretched canvas, currently on display at Enoteca (downtown Charlottesville) through December.

As I report for Demockeracy this week, the turkey President Bush pardoned kills again.  (I was thinking of this case.)

Artwork is oils on 24″ x 36″ stretched canvas, currently on display at Enoteca (downtown Charlottesville) through December.

Today The Science Creative Quarterly features my holiday poem/global warming ode, “Warm Tidings.”  Yes, Virginia, the reindeer are scared.

FREE

+ FREE

+ FREE

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BREAK

As I report for Demockeracy this week, Obama announces his first public works project.

Also, astute observers will note that my entire blog is gone as of this morning.  Many songs, comics, paintings, publication links and such, going back to November 2006.  Disappeared like a sand painting into the mists of the electronic ether.  Shaken and dissipated like an Etch-a-sketch of labor and love.  Obviously, it found someone else.  Maybe it finally joined the Peace Corps after all that talk.  Wherever it is, I hope it’s happy.

Songs are still on my music page here.  Artwork is still on my website here, although the blog was up-to-date in this vein while the website is not.  I’ll update it soon.  Old publication links are here.  And perhaps comics will be reposted when I’m out of ammo, since I really like those.