Paint smeared onto torn paper. Creatures as grotesque as the paper on which they were born.
Creatures on Paper - Incongruous Toy
Incongruous toy,
Wrapped in semi-harlequin
Garment, flat-footed.
20 in x 16, oil on paper
Creatures on Paper - Rubber Suit Beast
Rubber suit beast has
Just two green eyes, a big fat
Hand, and a red fin.
20 in x 16, oil on paper
Creatures on Paper - Beauty
Colors wiped away.
A whisper of a body
In the wrong outfit.
20 in x 16, oil on paper
Creatures on Paper - Sleeping Pink Elephant
They say there are no
Pink elephants, but I found
One dressed in bedclothes.
20 in x 16, oil on paper
Creatures on Paper - Forgotten Idol
Like a bird, but not
Birdlike. Feathers burned yellow.
Riding a pink horse.
20 in x 16, oil on paper
Creatures on Paper - Primitive Statuesque
Its eye a brazen
Fist. Primitive statuesque.
Standing in green night.
20 in x 16, oil on paper
Creatures on Paper - Impossible Trick
An impossible
One-handed headstand. No one
Else can do this trick.
20 in x 16, oil on paper
Creatures on Paper - Happy As a Labyrinth
Dancing upside-down,
Its body a labyrinth.
It knows happiness.
20 in x 16, oil on paper
Creatures on Paper - Yellow Energy
It doesn’t know where
To look. Scrambled marks. Yellow
Is an energy.
20 in x 16, oil on paper
Creatures - Heavy Eater
It is said he has
no tongue, but a thick jaw and
heavy appetite.
20 in x 16, oil on paper
Creatures on paper - Malformed Puppets
Warmed under the fire
Of the moon, malformed puppets
Staring back at you.
20 in x 16, oil on paper
Creatures on Paper - Primitive Split
Its face hidden in
Shadow, the primitive split
Does its last night dance.
20 in x 16 in, oil on paper
Creatures on Paper - Dangling Orange Beak
Ragged purple day.
Speckled pink and white beast with
Dangling orange beak.
20 in x 16 in, oil on paper
Creatures on Paper - Scissorhead
Head like a pair of
Scissors. Small orange feet, splayed.
Its body, soft pink.
20 in x 16 in, oil on paper
Creatures on Paper - Of Unknown Origins
Blue fish snatches a
Lemon. Red snake with yellow
Head climbs down pink rock.
20 in x 16 in, oil on paper