Etsy shop is up

My assemblage art is up on Etsy. I'll be adding more over the next few days, but I'm pretty happy with how they turned out.

Roman: Romaine :: Human:

Antony orates for ravenous Rome
aware that even rare meat of Caesar
never preserves a dear taste from the tomb.
His leafy words strike a salad pleaser.
Speech disintegrates—livers swell their fill
my sorrow pounding beneath a dunghill
refusing parsley’s thyme, sage’s rosemary
I ate deli tongue of Mark Antony.

And udders declare for the best afield
hoping nipple will wean away grim world.
But no, grass proclaims for both Atlantics
and I, pat as biological beef,
take Antony’s lips for their sorest truths:
two liars lost in the green of their grief.

Unread (Video)

Here's Unread, in video (really audio) format. The accompanying image is my brother's, a longstanding favorite.

Unread

Compelled by visions of faith,
they lived on ink and sweat.

They died—
their blood spilled ebon and fleet:
tumbling from bridges
burning in Italy
wasting through Africa
guttered by America.

What rough magnificence
fled from their skins
to angels underneath?

What smooth eloquence
flowed from their pages
as martyrs’ defense?