Art Attack Continues - dig the work!

Butterfly taken at the Academy of Sciences.

 The next three are digitally manipulated acrylic paintings on canvas.

The Fruits of Summer, ehrm, ok the Fish of Summer!

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Third Essay: Release the Orange!

 Using the ideas of the New York School like anti-narrative and alt-narrative, juxtaposition, simple present tense and continuous present (I drop in, I go, the days go / Goldberg is starting a painting, I am thinking of a color), and parataxis (the only conjunctive word used is “and”, it shows up four times in the second stanza and only once in the last one) the poet Frank O’Hara explains why he isn’t a painter.

 “Why I Am Not a Painter” is an anti-narrative poem, it is uncompromisingly narrative and tells a story about a poet and a painter who come together at about the same time as each of them are in the middle of their creative progression. Although the poem looks like a spontaneous narrative of two creative processes happening simultaneously, it is actually calculated because the creation of Sardines and Oranges didn’t happen at the same time: Oranges: 12 Pastorals was written in 1949 ⁽¹⁾ when O’Hara was still an undergraduate at Harvard and SARDINES was painted in 1955. ⁽²⁾ So it is safe to state that O’Hara did not actually visit Goldberg while he was in the middle of creating SARDINES. It is interesting to point out that this poem or anecdote is a retelling of another anecdote depicting that the medium is one of the differences between the painter and the poet. A century ago in Paris, the painter Degas had lamented that his poems weren't any good though his ideas were wonderful, and the poet Mallarme responded, "But my dear Degas, poems are made of words, not ideas." ⁽³⁾

There are also hints of “alt-narrative”, as described by Professor Al Filreis, as Frank O”Hara utilizes the I do this and I do that (I drink; we drink), and although juxtaposition does exist by the author placing the creative process of painting and poetry close together there is a clear connection, which is the creative process itself.

Meta poem is evident here because O’hara states “Pretty soon it is a whole page of words, not lines…” he is describing the use of parataxis in his composition of ORANGES, he has written a whole page of words that one can assume the placing together of sentences, clauses, or phrases without the use of conjunctive words.

The poem says O’Hara is a poet and not a painter because he finds the medium of painting a bit limiting. Both the painting and the poem begin with different words as inspiration. Goldberg ultimately removes the word SARDINES as the main focal point of his painting because it was “too much” and fills his canvas with abstract images in yellows, oranges, blues, browns, reds and black. O’Hara states that he wrote a line about orange after he thought of the color, but that line then morphed into a whole page of words, then into another. Unlike Goldberg, O’Hara doesn’t feel like his multiple pages filled with words are “too much” so he keeps writing and is ultimately left with ORANGES: 12 PASTORALS; which is written in prose and O’Hara playfully exclaims, “I am a real poet”.

O’Hara enjoys playing with language and is happy to take what could have been a simple poem about the color orange to the length of a dozen poems; he points out to the reader in the final stanza that though the poem is indeed called oranges he makes no mention of the word. Goldberg kept the word SARDINES in his finished work, kept it within the four sides of the canvas, whereas O’Hara finds no restriction in the writing of words, of pages, of a dozen poems; they could go on and become volumes because, like Mallarme pointed out, poems are made up of words.

(1)  The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara, University of California Press, Donald Allen, ed. ISBN-10: 0520201663. 586 pages.

(2)  Smithsonian American Art Museum, http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=40531

(3)  David Lehman, http://www.bestamericanpoetry.com/pages/lehman.html

I Wait for the Day

The Gothic Crow lands in October and I expect the bay to shimmer in the sun and the bridges to hold hands with the lands they intersect.
I thank the authors of this auspicious circumstance
I thank the dimpled Fae that made this materialize
Covered in magic, I wait for the day

She Brought Them to Her

Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine surrounded her with words

The Flowers of Evil, Drunken Mornings and Sentences, Puppets and the Sea Shells

Slim shadow was shepherd in all the while keeping a steady beat as the pages of plays yet unwritten sparked in the universal brain

Dali flew in on the wings of a crow named Raymond, hand on head 30 second baptism

Janis dangled from a pearl earring, a sorrowful treasure, a lonely gypsy kissed by boas


Jim with all of his friends that died, forever immortalized as Providence keeps vigil

Robert, the boy who loved Michelangelo, snaps his fingers and a masterpiece is made. Blink an eye and the artistic world turns over


She brought them to her, her pull inevitable, unmistakable...spark!


Paths crossed planned by a higher hand, working magic with the chess pieces below the clouds


That hand now plans my meeting and I will ride the trade winds that will bring me closer to my homecoming with the Gothic crow

Invisalign me!

See the butterfly teeth? They may be a thing of the past!

 Back from the consult with Dr. Young, here are the bullet points as I remember them:

• Can go straight to Invisalign
• 20 months is the target time
• No extractions, if things progress nicely. if they don't there may need to be extractions in the future. Let's hope that doesn't happen and that things progress nicely
• My flared teeth can be slimmed down
• I'll need some shaping/shaving for the gum gaps
• I need a new set of x-rays which can be done in LHts
• I need to get Cadent Scan a C Dental. Need to figure out which office is better for this, transportation wise and based on Yelp reviews
• I will call Yvette to schedule these for me
• Dr. Young's office will finance at 0% - hell yes
• With 2k down payment I can pay about $158 a month for 20 months
• My teeth are a size 12 vs a size 10 jaw
• My jaw will continue to shrink
• The procedure route will push my teeth to the side making room for my front teeth to come back into line, same with the lower
• Clear braces and Invisalign are the same price
• I was told I had pretty teeth by one of the tech girls, hell I 'll take it!