full stop/fake muse/Grace Under Water

Today sees one of those feeling-uninspired sessions of trying to light a fire with wet matches. So–draw a skinny upper leg. Attach an asthenic young woman with an icebag on her knee, held down by her crossed wrists, holding a smartphone and possibly taking the viewer’s picture. Go on from there. Finish the page but, feeling undone, start another. Draw an eye, then its mate. Attach a dissipated-looking not-quite-young face to it. Draw and compose by the seat of your pants. Finish the page, unsatisfied.

View them both at once. Not as bad. One thing’s for sure, neither works by itself. Some of the poetry is OK.

Friends, welcome to The Creative Process on a day when the artist/poet feels anything but creative. Artists CANNOT WAIT for Inspiration. The creation-rheostat has a full range, from 100%, which is Effortless and Seems Like It’s Creating Itself, to 0%, which is Death Valley and Tooth Extraction and You Don’t Know What The Hell You’re Doing all rolled into one. But every bit of directed effort is part of the continuum, part of the tapestry. So we grind on when we must, and savor when it soars.

full stop

failed the tests
under arrest
let that cop go
lollipop

fake muse

falsecolor galaxy fruit of the loom
antioch prep deuteronomy u
kale & verbatimy transcript–no mas
endochrinology–lift demitasse

Grace Under Water

Grant us thunder & a law
Rip nonSense & blablabla
Access wonder & delight
Catch some breezes w/yr kite
Etch & render ❤ u tender