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i am imagining/expanding my horizon as a sculptor/by sculpting the more than two hundred individual bones/of a human skeleton

and having done that/have the bones be three-dee scanned/and fabricated in porcelain/with a three-dee printer/in enormous quantity/and variety of sizes

and with this huge number of hellish tinkertoys/assemble odd dioramas/such as a bone house/surrounded by a picket fence/made of femurs/connected by clavicles

or a portrait of lincoln/with tiny carpal bones/assembled into his beard/and eyebrows/and a little patella/for his wart

the bones could make anything/from petunias to starships

but what has indelibly seared its image into my brain/is a ribcage and upper spine assembly/within which/is a heart-sized skull

the skull would be made not of porcelain but silicone

and via interior bones and a small motor/and maglev tech/would beat like a heart/faster if excited/slower if asleep

and could travel within the ribcage/peering out of the cage of the ribs/with its eye sockets

imprisoned and wildly free/at the same time

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Inktober continues with a demonstration of how Halloween can make us playfully crazy. “Shadowplay” does not mean having fun with shadows, but why shouldn’t it? Today it does.

There are fewer than five hours left in my Inktober. I have four more images to do. If I stop having fun, and the work turns stale, I’ll stop and declare victory, finished images or no. This Inktober has already exceeded my expectations, and brought my drawing hand fully back to life. It would be nice to do it all, though . . .