upstage center: dead boy

(literal organ music)
First Things 1:1-8

You think we all want to sink and we do / back down from the current.
Cicek

a sambal of shadows flavors a gallows’ human haul
June Sucker

a data-lag will add to a doom motif
Borderlands

The fact that she’s been dead for two decades does not lessen my need to keep the communication going.
Ruchita and the Foreigner

Once upon a time, two girls collided.
Maybe the ‘R’ in the R Train Stands for Revelation

I feel holy.
Baby Teeth

Today my mother called from Texas to say all my grandmother’s teeth are breaking apart and have to be pulled, one by one, from her head.
Do Nothing With Your Life

Three days separated the two events.
The Epic of Us (Notes on FilAm Fellowship)

Hobbits are in America, bitches.
Artists – Volume 14.1

Kateryna Bortsova Despy Boutris Nicola Brayan Federico Federici Cristina Iorga Ana Jovanovska Edward Lee Carlos Lorenzana Adriano Marinazzo Veronica Marshall Meagan Marsh Pine Leah Oates Jim Ross
Kateryna Bortsova
Way to my Heart London, Pastel, 100x140cm, 2016 Defense, Acrylic on Board, Plastic, Iron, 100×170 cm, 2017
Despy Boutris

(Eye) (1), paper collage, 8.5 x 11 in. 2021 June, paper collage, 8.5 x 11 in. 2021
Nicola Brayan
Melancholia, 21x30cm, 2020 Aloof, 10x14cm, 2020
Federico Federici
Dunkelight, Pencil, Ink Pen, Olivetti Studio 46 on Paper, 14.8 × 21cm, 2020 Lines from a dying star, Charcoal, Glue, Ink Pen, Olivetti Studio 46 on Paper, approx. 15 × 16.5cm, 2019