Michigan City, IN

"La destrucción de la orden vieja" y el nacimiento de una estética del arte

José Clemente Orozco, 1926. Escuela Nacional Preparatorio, México D.F.

El simbolismo en las obras de Orozco es muy intrigante. El hombre en este obra está alcanzando en el futuro y está mirando en el pasado. Esto parece definir la estética del muralismo mexicano y es muy similar a Modernismo norteamericano. La atención se centra en el derrumbe del pasado mientras que la está buscando es un busca ciego de respuestas.

No Ordinary Moments

When people cry in corners

and worms populate my drive to school,

the odor is right;

the solution is highly plausible,

and I begin to rub it all over

the people I meet.

During lunch the chef talked about religion

and the man that sat across

from me lost his wife a week ago.

He looked like a skyscraper

with shrimp tails waving

in the heat of the façade.

I felt a book under my bed begin

to rise from the onion volcano.

There were answers in the vapor

and remedial laughter.

We just stared at each other

through the fire.

Coyotes Becoming...

I found this coyote skeleton on a nature hike the other day. The clouds seem to sort of mirror the image of the coyote skeleton as if suggesting an afterlife. It struck me with an invocation of the intriguing and existential binary of life/death, body/spirit, Earth/heaven ...&c.

Time

Valerian

I shouldn’t take

These herbs, because

I will handle the tablets

of mummies.

Perhaps, nightmares of

crumbling clay faces

will actual my quickening.

With broken

Ears and teeth

I am welcomed

In the unraveling of servants.

And for my

foolish prying of hinges

I unearth myself in attics.

The Word "is"

I will write

That tremendously

Intriguing phrase

On a note card

And tack it

To my wall

And I will

Look at it

Every day

Until it ceases

To have

Any meaning

At all.