The Prelude

It is just a few month shy of three years since I last posted in this space. I forgot it existed. But I love re-invention and re-appropriation. That is why I am here, to take back my own space!

Over winter break I had the time and opportunity to take in lots of awesome art. The highlights included:

• Francisco Goya at the Norton Simon Museum, which has one of my all-time favorite pieces of art: 

"El sueño de la razón produce monstruos"
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters

• Childish Gambino's new project Because The Internet. The script, the album, and all the little bits in-between make it a multi-media masterpiece that deserves a look even if you are not a hip-hop fan. 
• A bit of a warning the work is rather dark and gloomy,which is why I like it, but it sat heavy on my heart for a few days as I digested it. It is also quite explicit. 

• The architecture of downtown Los Angeles, specifically the post-modern mind benders The Walt Disney Concert Hall and The Westin Bonaventure Hotel

As I took in all this art over break I found it brought me great joy and stimulated new ways of thinking in my mind. Which is what I believe art should do. I am re-claiming my blog space because I want to inject a bit of art into the small community that will stumble here. My goal is to publish a poem a week here on my re-claimed blog. I hope my poems will get you the reader thinking, writing, searching for actually good poetry its mostly all here and maybe even discover a bit of joy in art. Its a journey I am committed too and hope you will join me.