"I
don't think poetry can be "found" by picking up a rock or a dead bird
off the ground and simply calling it poetry and that's IT - but I do think
poetry/art can be unexpectedly yet significantly inspired by such findings. For
me, something about the visual imagery of bird fetuses and the thoughts then
provoked in my mind can stimulate poetry/art. Same with other sorts of small
things that many people would overlook and/or would find unworthy of much
consideration and/or would find grossly unappealing. The tendency to ignore
things like that makes me wonder WHY. Is it because of being easily grossed
out? Is it because small odd things are inconsequential to the mainstream? Is
it because of fear of death, fear of demise, fear of being crushed by something
larger, fear of non-existence?"
A snippet from an interview with me (about dead birds, art,
poetry, publishing and more), which appears within the new issue of Sein und
Werden, here -
The interview also
brings up my recent collaborative work with Robert Cole – and a collaborative
poem by the two of us, “Churning Codex Portal”, appears in this issue of Sein
as well.
“Churning Codex
Portal” is a poem from our collaborative chapbook, “Mutant Neuron Codex Swarm”,
chosen to be published by Hyacinth Girl Press in 2014.
A few more poems from
that chapbook are soon to appear online within “Black Heart Magazine” and
“Menacing Hedge” (via which you will be able to hear us read some of the poems
too).
Also a new individual poem by me is coming soon from POETSARTISTS (The Social Portrait).
Also a new individual poem by me is coming soon from POETSARTISTS (The Social Portrait).
