haiku

I took a poetry class back in sophomore year taught by a wise man named Rick Benjamin; it was like water to a dry plant. Anyway, I kept writing over the years - nothing huge, just messing around with words when I found the time. Then a couple days ago I watched Tokyo Godfathers with a friend, and we noticed random haiku inserted in the movie. So then I thought I'd share some of my own as well, if you don't mind. The first's a poem I wrote for class way back, and the haiku aren't recent either, except maybe the last one:

Development of James Bay, c. 1971

Who knew

Electric bills were paid

with rivers silenced by concrete,

with fish pregnant of mercury,

giving birth to the end

of ancient Native voices?

Who knew

'development' meant

A France-sized ecosystem

Far older and wiser than her enemies

Could be flattened faster

Than we could say,

"Dam."

[ haiku ]

When both eyelids droop

And the nighttime cold steals in,

It is time to work.

Candy from babies

Taste the sweetest when stolen

To soothe our own cries.

We'll change history

by writing more poetry,

no more war stories.

amelie

a painting Dadu and I made for our Collabustration show back in November :)

watercolour, gouache, acrylic on paper

the chaos my studio space has descended into

a painting I made last night from an Amélie film still

oil on canvas

version in progress, though I think I like it better before I took out the yellow..

also did some illustrations for Monthly Design Review

times are crazy, friends. So Crazy.