Artwork Burning Summer Flux—more detail, full artwork, and technical description below. Coming in 2025, The Origins of Time.
Time Passing
Madeleine had painted her ceiling
black, splashed it with stars
and a waning crescent moon.
Tag Archives: LifePoetry
Bushland River
Artwork Bushland River—more detail, full artwork and technical description below.
Conditional
And if there were a quiet garden,
cosy and safe, in some forgotten
postcode where time trickles like honey,
and where I might pause and know,
not that my struggles were in vain,
incarnate
Artwork Incarnate on the Inside—more detail, full artwork and technical description below.
The Summer of the Seventeenth Heatwave
“… then the waterfowl,
in silent affirmation,
chose me as their leader …
“… and in the summer
of the seventeenth heatwave,
I followed my dreams to where
the flowers bloom after dark …
going back
Chair Exhibition now on at Articulate Project Space. Images show detail of artworks generated with my Visual Evolution Engine. Natural textures enhanced by AI’s Stable Diffusion: the approach makes little use of prompts & relies on ControlNet.
Here is the full text of Going Back—
Seeking the faraway
lighthouse in
self-sufficient
adoration.
infatuations
Infatuations, adapted from full poem here—
When the world was flat,
I was lost in a dream
that was not my own,
in a mistaken reality.
The Everwind
Poetry The Everwind and artwork x 4 from the Beyond AI Project, powered by the Visual Evolution Engine.
Coming soon, “Texture of Silence.” Info below.
silver days
Long ago, there were castles
carved of ice in the frozen South.
Auroral fireworks flowered
from their ramparts,
and rained liquid silverlight
into shadows to equalise
the darkness.
inexpressible
The Purpose of Reality illustrated short story and poetry collections from Meerkat Press, with pretty fair reviews from Publishers Weekly and the like, now available on Amazon and at other outlets, click for details including reviews.
“It’s time to write in the first person,”
he declared, “no more
of the inconsequential,
the vaporous, the bland quotidian.”
beyond the glass
The Purpose of Reality illustrated short story and poetry volumes from Meerkat Press, with fair reviews from Publishers Weekly and the like, now available on Amazon and at other outlets, click for details including reviews.
Beyond the glass, the water birds
are gliding on the rails of rain,
and, for a moment,
their distant pattering melody
recalls a semblance
of another chance
at hopefulness—even with
the knowing that it’s far too late
for all of that.
the realtor’s dream
The Purpose of Reality, illustrated short stories and poetry from Meerkat Press. They’ve had some pretty fair reviews from Publishers Weekly and the like. Now available to order on Amazon, and at other outlets. Purchase, review, and other info here.
Location, location, location,
the realtor’s dream of sifting
through the time stream’s rows
of single bed room nights
in the company of shades and shadows,
and never lost in someone else’s thoughts.
the quiet hours
The rain was running late, still pattering
on the muddy puddles of the city sky,
and the street was smeared with cloud
star-ridden with mercury lamps—
a world as dreary as long-lost
infatuation, as a friend’s anger,
as empty jealousy.
Like a moth attracted
to the flickers of fluorescent lights,
I chose a frayed café where
my dairy-whitened instant coffee
with artificial sweetener
—all its chemical delights—
put me in the writing mood.