( Caption : add to the startling effect )
this / rɛd / appears black
rill erosion : arid zones more vulnerable
to physical weathering
cracked chapped
folds and sleeves : the skin before it sloughs
: a trick of the light = the blood in my wrist runs blue :
rill erosion : arid zones more vulnerable
to physical weathering
cracked chapped
folds and sleeves : the skin before it sloughs
: a trick of the light = the blood in my wrist runs blue :
( Caption : the appearance of dampened clay )
a sconced frieze fingering geologic time
a print exposing the empiric impulse
to impose / / frame
into recognizable focus
an emergence of torsos and tendons
from shrouds of ash a protrusion
that dares us not to say
face.
a print exposing the empiric impulse
to impose / / frame
into recognizable focus
an emergence of torsos and tendons
from shrouds of ash a protrusion
that dares us not to say
face.
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Matthew Woodman is the founding editor of the journal Rabid Oak and the author of This Is Not Your Moon. He was named the 2022 Kern County Poet Laureate, and his essay on a Rufino Tamayo mural appeared in UNESCO Art Collection: Selected Works, 2021. While he teaches at California State University, Bakersfield, he studies at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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