Acrylic on Canvas, 1999, 30×40

Chess at Bayside/Is serious business/Wrapped against the autumn wind/With sweat suits and concentration
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1999-ACV-30×40-004

Pastel and Ink on Canson, 2025, 9×12  Note Date

Everything astounds me/Each day/All the long years

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2025-PIC-9×12-006

Acrylic on Canvas Paper, 2004, 12×36

Self-confidence/can be worn like clothing/so we hardly notice

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2004-ACP-12×36-029

Acrylic on Canvas, 2000, 30×40

Much depends on where I sit/more depends on where I look/and all depends on how I see/the outside world is real enough/but I know only fractions of it

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2000-ACV-30×40-018

Acrylic on Watercolor Paper, 1999, 22×30

Dreck and pebbles on the shore/life’s struggles with the seasons/man’s craft for the elements/light and water play on the eye/how can I hope to describe them? 

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1999-AWP-22×30-105

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Acrylic on Canvas Board, 1998, 24×36

Hot July noon/lifts the smells/of lobster traps/And tidal flats.

(mold damage)

1998-ACB-24×36-117

Acrylic on Canvas, 2000, 30×40

Along harborrun time passes/like empty cold wind/pale sun behind racing clouds/I force myself against inertia/with the jogger, defying winter sleep.

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2000-ACV-30×40-006

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Acrylic on Canvas, 1974, 32×44

Dancers

1974-ACV-32×44-031

Acrylic on Canvas, 2003, 40×30

We leave our deep thoughts at/the closed studio door. Hand-eye/ wired directly is ideal. Half/each brain a sullen spectator/all hoping for sometime magic

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2003-ACV-40×30-038

Acrylic on Canvas, 2004, 30×40

One lovely morning/in the middle -/a swan/my morning, my swan, my center

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2004-ACV-30×40-011