My work IN GEORGIA! (where it's probably warmer)

***Above images from my series "Perhaps". 2008. Color photographs. 4"x6".

They are being shown in juried exhibition:

“All Small Redux"

In this time of downsizing, low returns, minimal output and small budgets, it is refreshing to celebrate the fabulous preciousness of the tiny.

Jurors are Lisa Alembik, Rachael Baldanza and Richard Gess, organizers of 2002’s “All Small.”

Feb. 12- March 22nd, 2009

@ the Dalton Gallery, Angnes Scott College

Decatur, GA

Feb 12 - 5-8p.m. Opening Reception.

March 4, 7 p.m. All Small Night of PerformanceAn evening of performances that are 60 seconds or less! Dance, song, performance art, poetry readings—most anything goes. Contact the gallery to sign up to perform.

Gallery Hours: M-F 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. S/S noon-4 p.m.404 471-5361 daltongallery@agnesscott.edu http://daltongallery.agnesscott.edu/

Entry is free and open to the public.

The Dalton Gallery is located in the Dana Fine Arts Building on the corner of S. McDonough and E. Dougherty streets.

Lisa Alembik, DirectorThe Dalton Gallery Agnes Scott College 141 E. College Ave.Decatur, GA 30030404 471-6244 p 404 471-5369 f www.agnesscott.edu http://daltongallery.agnesscott.edu/

The Dalton Gallery is a member of the Visual Arts Network of Atlanta (VANA) www.visualartsatlanta.com

When I wear the socks I wore to bed to work
I feel devious and sleepy
audaciously unkempt

knee high and red
soccer socks from the fourth grade

they're stained
with a history of victory
and losses

the next best thing
to barefoot

under my desk

naked ankles
and toes

lusting after
blisters

longing

to carry this body

for freedom

for open roads

or
at least
take me
back

to my

warm
worn
bed

back
home.

"Lookin' for Love"? - First Friday at Highwire Gallery in Philadelphia's Fishtown

***It's cold out -- go see some of my work! @ the Highwire Gallery. It'll warm your heart...and who knows, it's an opening with poetry, maybe you'll be able to pick somebody up.

"Lookin' for Love"@ HIGHWIRE GALLERYa juried show on the theme of love

Opening Reception First Friday, February 6th, 5-9 pm
with a special reading at 8:30 pm..."Four Poets in Love" featuring Adam Fieled, David Prater, Sarah Birl and Paul Siegell.

show runs February 6 through March 1, 2009
Th 12-4, Fri 3-7, Sat & Sun 12-5

HIGHWIRE GALLERY
2040 Frankford Ave, 19125
215.426.2685http://www.highwiregallery.com/

The city is dressed
usually
obtrusively
naked
pre-sexed or post-sexed
this morning I woke
and the city was dressed
hidden away
are the dinner remains
the city's cow paddies
arrant plastic bags and newspapers and grit
mixed and made into mud
masked is the smell of urine
the sirens and trolleys
are muted
the whole angry mean thing
insulated
trapped within itself
beneath a blanket
of snow
all forms of public transportation
are stalled
now its raining
in the breaking morning light
we are all waiting
for the trolley
and they keep driving
past.

A breeze blows underground
the personality of public transportation
being pushed down long corridors
and through tunnels
smell of wet earth in the concrete

we are all potatoes

french fried
and mashed
shoe-string and crinkle-cut
baked and dressed
with sour cream and chives
greek yogurt
honey and raisins
bacon bits
cheddar cheese
artichoke hearts
marinated in olive oil and garlic

tuber roots
with tentacles and pock marks
stink-eye and bruises
showing our growth
in lines along our faces
scared arms and hands

And at night
lying in the bed
next to one another we roll over
Potatoes turning in the dirt

we all
roll over

waking to apply
eye glasses

get up
and
take the train.