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ArtNo Place Like Home – Barn Owl
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Acrylic on untempered Masonite. 24" x 32".
Artuntitled #300 (or so)
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Pigma Microns on mixed media paper, 9x12 inches.
Poetrysome regrets
are like an ancient light arriving late with no time to turn back to retrace falls flat stale and old…
PoetryThe pelican
Pouring beans onto a plate I stare into the emptied pan I wash up forget to eat thinking of the…
PoetryA Train Through the South
Clatter-click, the wheels hum hymnals, iron devotions through swamp-threaded veins. Out the window—a preacher, part-wolf, part-telephone, howls his sermon into…
PoetryRetaining Walls
Along the far edge of the parking lot the landlord’s men stacked rough-hewn stone to build a retaining wall for…
PoetryToo Much
She did not ask if she could be strong, she just was, like a tree that grows sideways to find…
ArtTwo Acrylic Paintings by Vincent Bihn II
The Watcher Acrylic on untempered Masonite. 17" x 25". _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Bobcat Acrylic on untempered Masonite. 12" x 16". Artist's Note:…
PoetryAugust Almanac
Prologue: August is the shopper in front of me chatting up a cashier while my ice cream melts, the guy…
PoetryFalling
Ice comes slowly to a lake it’s like love and then all at once you’re head over heels
PoetryAutumn Prayer
May Autumn last long enough for a full census of fallen leaves. May we mediate between extremes, and find resolutions…
PhotographySummer in Iberia Photo Gallery
The 8 photographs in this series were taken in Meseta de Segovia, Spain. Summer 2026. __________________________________________________________________________________________ *********
PoetryBarnacles, Fir Trees, Elephant Ears
Towering crumbling columns fill the air Empty endless ribbons guard silent brick edifices Nestled among the stacks Dry sandy brown…
PoetryMoonlight
the breeze is cool off the water the waves gentle resting from a day's work we're walking in wet sand…
PoetryFreedom
Freedom is not the absence of walls, it is the room built wide enough for a child to run in,…
Poetrythe blind potter
clay sings to him guides his touch a shared pleasure as slick fingers coax a softly swollen curve a slender…
PoetryThe books on the shelves
The books on the shelves will always be around even when and if you're no longer. Oh, the surface of…
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