Apparition Poem #1547 in Fixator Press

Many thanks to Jonathan Butcher for publishing #1547 in Fixator Press. 
 

The Creatrix

The idea of the Creatrix— the creative female goddess— followed Mary around. 

Key point: triad time

This Mary Evelyn Harju portrait of me was painted in late 2006, into 2007. I have now used it as the cover image for PICC. Worth noting: the way I take it, it's not exactly completely an affectionate portrait. The drab coloration, misshapen quality of my head and my hair, were deliberate on Mary's part. As, also, is the sense that my face, as it is painted here, is a little off. If you look closely at it, it is easy to discern that what you are seeing is my face, melded with Abby Heller-Burnham's face. Mary seems to be expressing a certain amount of righteous indignation that Abby and I, by then, had consummated an affair too. Even after I broke up with Mary at the end of '03, I was supposed to know that Abby was off-limits. And, as is generally known, Mary and I did reunite for a big chunk of 2007. So my sense of reuniting with Mary was not thrown off. But important that Mary seemed to see Abby and I together as demonic, or at least menacing. All the elements of the painting which could seem peculiar are no accident.

Engagements

The manner in which Mary played the role of the painter, suggested a determination she had both to engage, and to participate in, the history of painting.  

Eris Calling

Call, calling card coming in from another architectural universe.  

The whole business of Equations

The whole business of Equations begins with me standing alone. 
 

Numbers, Calling Cards

The numbers for my sites on Blogger have gone through the roof in the last month. To all my, and our, readers, many thanks. Also, two new Calling Card sites: 1 and 2.  

What it all means

 Unreal not to emphasize about Abby what her bisexuality meant to her.

More Boar-Year

 A few months before the release of Opera Bufa. 

Molly's

 Mary snapped this shot of me at Molly's, where I debuted Feel in the mid-Aughts. 

Partnership

The partnership with Mary H was a glimpse into a higher world while it lasted.

Clark Park

No landmark in West Philly like Clark Park for creating down-home ambience. 

Stark

 The vibe we carried around with us was a Live Forever one, much of the time. 

Saint Catherine Street #2

Starlight in West Philadelphia

So: the Mary years, 2001-2003 and then 2007, sandwich Henniker, 2005. They were spent shuttling back and forth between Logan Square and West Philadelphia.

Henniker

California tumbles into the sea: that'll be the day I go back to Henniker. Tried to warn you, about Gerry and Ann-Marie...except, not. As an extremely interesting locale in the mid-Aughts, alive with the right kind of ferment & mischief (possible seat of revolutions), Henniker, New Hampshire was exemplary. 

The preponderance of 2005?

And back to this again, from 2025. 2005 was huge with Ms. H-B, and also Ms. W-G. 

"Like painter Jenny Kanzler, Graham torques the Creatrix archetype in on itself, so that narratives of passion become narratives of purgation, yogic exercises to make metaphors."

By reflex action 2

 A continuation of Miss H-B's story. 

By reflex action

 It would be inappropriate not to have Miss H-B on here.