sample spreads from zine:
Goodness Gracious is a zine/photography/audio project completed during a summer residency at Elf School of the arts in Hayesville, NC. It is a compilation of experimental photographs made using alternative processing and written poems.
artist in the sciences
whats the difference between an artist and a scientist
an ant an ampersand
my doors lean up against the wall
opening one by its handle
you’d fall
falls are september, october, november
a scientist needs control of the
variables
an artist adapts.
GRASS
itchy outside floor lint
rain damn it!
give me wet grass
fresh cut grass.
I made the tea that could kill me,
grass juice
bubbly botulism
microgreen, macrogreen
I pick you blades
hiding skulls and the poison
bottle. grow tall on the hill
raise your asshole, cutting limbs, into the sky.
grow the flowers, home the creatures
today grass steps on me.
PISS
warm yellow piss
piss on the toilet seat
piss yourself laughing so hard
pissed about life
having to piss so bad you have to pull your pants down by the river and start your own stream.
jar of piss
jar’d piss like a nurse requests piss for the bathroom cabinet.
dr. nash taking three day old piss sample and heating it in the sun
the test results came back
invalid.
leaving & going
nobody in this town is gonna care if my shoes match my belt.
taught young to leave
never shown the staying.
im the leaving and going.
im a leavin nd goin
im a leaven, goat, hen
im a leave them and goad them
times a leaving me growin.
town of elf
where am i
i sawed into you
i saw you , metal spoon of steel
metal spoon of great horror
unbending
sawed into it
sawed into it again
saw into the future , needed more rest
dreamt about swimming with the leeches all around me
they drain me in the water of life
cleansing the widowed fishwife
woke up an elf today
my ears getting pointy.