I am excited to announce that my work is now being promoted by Davis-Cohen Art (DCA), which places art in medical facilities, corporate settings, and other public venues. Thanks to DCA, the two […]
Author Archives: CF
Joyrise
[Earth’s humblest life forms] are slowly mounting like needles drawn to a higher force, a fuller magnet, a crystalline sphere where nothing exists but the thought of peace. . . . […]
Surreal Eye
[T]he lid does not stand in its way, the lash does not count what goes in. “An Eye, Open” Paul Celan
Rain
Gathering speed, one drop Chas[es] another, racing to reach A fork in the path, lingering Before making a detour to join Another, fattening on the way Until entering a […]
Waiting
Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, or tide, or sea . . . Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high, Can keep […]
School of Fish
Fishes put to shame all other motion; Even birds in flight Have not their fine mercurial flow, Their swift recoil, their supple pliancy. . . . They are water’s self made manifest[.] […]
Hotline
Surface engraved with a narrow stroke, path imagined between two points. . . . A conduit, a boundary, an exacting course of thought. “Line” Matt Donovan
Candlepower
The candle[light] blinds me still. I need the night to flood the inner caves of sight with the black light that roars beyond the prism. “Picasso’s Candlefire” Dilys […]
A Closer Look
When I imagine all the creatures living within me, within one cell of me, I become a sun. “Welcoming the Season’s First Insects” James Baker Hall
The Face of Time
Darkness will not erase you the way it erases day with night because darkness is not the clock but merely the time falling away from the clock’s circular […]
Paper Frog
my frog is a frog that cannot croak a note, my frog is a frog with a frog in its throat. “My Frog Is a Frog” Jack Prelutsky […]
Let All Creation Celebrate
Now all things have been filled with light, both heaven and earth and all that is beneath the earth; therefore let all creation celebrate Christ’s rising, by which it is […]
April 7th
[I]t’s spring the calendar says and the [place] where you are [sitting] is empty yet full of what loves you and this is the day that you were born. […]
News: Suspended Animation
Once upon a time I caught a little rhyme I set it on the floor but it ran right out the door . . . Then it grew into a kite and […]
Fire Cat
He wakes from deepest sleep upon a distant signal and waits as if crouching, springs to life. “A Little Language” Robert Duncan [When a powerful macro […]
Retrospection
Sometimes it feels like it is over and it’s not. Sometimes it feels like it has just begun and it’s over. “Turnt” Juliana Spahr
Adrift
In this slanty light suspended, the [fish] stood still on the water . . . not daring to breathe. “Drifting” Kathleen Spivack
Happy Valentine’s Day!
A castaway blown south from the arctic tundra . . . The wind ruffles his feathers from crown to claw . . . We leave him surrendering to the […]
Shook Foil
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil . . . “God’s Grandeur” Gerard Manley Hopkins