poetry objects

The Day is Bright with Burning

o fogo

she had her own reason for participating

I wrote this poem by pulling hundreds of sentences I encountered in the Watcher Files that begin with the word she. This composed a...

the moth

cotton thread on cotton cloth; copper wire

odes to strangers as friends

Odes to other people are acknowledgements, celebrations, efforts to see each other. I have an ongoing ode that I create through conversations with people,...

Beware the fury

Embroidered dropcloth

air the fire

Embroidered triptych. Black cotton thread on black linen cloth. City of Portland art collection.

tiny arctic ice

não fui eu

So He Raised His Hand

(Bench by Garrick Imatani; Letterpress by Inge Bruggeman; poem collaboration with Lloyd Marbet). So He Raised His Hand emerged from conversations with Lloyd Marbet from...

Remember to Wave

Remember to Wave is an inexpert investigation, a pedestrian inquiry. I mapped & remapped a walk near the Expo Center in North Portland as...