Did Something Curious Really Happen to Joe Ayala?

By way of introduction to Jose V. Ayala, I will read to you a few paragraphs from a biographical sketch written for an issue of the Road Map Series that featured some of his more notable visual works. The biography was aptly entitled “Something Curious Happened to Joe Ayala”, to wit: “In the Sixties he […]

Long Distance

surrounded byelectronic susurrations surrounded by electronic susurrations we talk whispering sweet love and raging passion encased in organic curves customized Apollos fondled so readily (so handily) screaming bloody damnation and murder thrown every which way emotion converted to electron and back debating infinite degrees of gray art transformed to math summed back into art multiplied […]

early morning wish

if i could freeze all your worries in a single teardrop of early morning dew, so it disappears in sparkling anonymity, and perhaps the whole lot whisked away by early dawn’s last tendrils of cool zephyrs when touched by blissfully peeking warmth of sunlight, then i could, perhaps, soothe your psychic ravines, into gently rolling […]

A Dog’s Life

If we’d been dogs, maybe we’d have spent about 2 to 3 minutes sniffing each other, then spent the rest of the day doing the more important stuff — chasing each other, chasing cats or chickens or each other’s or our own tails. What fun! As it is, most of us go through such unnecessarily […]