The combination of different elements, including the tiger, the faceless woman, the bare feet, and the stratus clouds, creates an extraordinary scene. Where did the inspiration of the painting come from? At the time, I had been reading a lot about Surrealism and studying Salvador Dali. Up until this point in 2016, most of my works had been done by…

All summer long, we played checkers out on your front porch. The discs clinked under our fingertips, which shone with grease from the potato chips we licked but would not eat. This was our habit: to pop a chip under our tongues and lave the brittle flake, swallowing only the aftertaste of salt and sour cream. Earlier, you had dumped sugar-free…

I too am gathering the vulgarity             of botany, the eye and its nuclei for mischief. Of Man, redacted I came, am coming,             fasting, starving carved myself a selfish idol, its shell unsuitable. I, twice             discarded, arrived thornside, and soon outgrew his reptilian sheen. A fine specimen. Let me have it…