chemical lace / day series

              morning /



the new light new again            still unclear


where the rays finally go            absorbed into infinite so-and-so


running stitch    the cord of my legs


chain link ripples some tree flesh


a new    form of                          execution             my body has never been unsafe


unless in public              due to its          holes       have you been laced through               like a purse, pierce a drink of   tall water














              noon/



a tulip without its shadow


disclosure of the full image          the sun a coin            I can’t look at


divulge a turning           if a face is the part of a thing presented to view    but I cannot bear to receive


the present       the hot ray          diffused across warming skin   my tits pooling


the sun’s skin radiating itself                  touching even to the side of the universe I haven’t seen


                          stuck as I am on


                          my particular cloud














              deep afternoon/



fealty singing a pearl a pronounced quantity pearling    a number of incisions down the beast


of the tone         poised on         an edge of a cliff              like my flourish?  like my pith?


fluorescence      petalpetalpetal   becoming my own        little pet














              dusk/



the parting of the thing into      shallow and deeper dark














              evening/



kept to the garden        the gibbous hanging by a         sacrificial thread           pull thru to


the next            window            bobbing on the evening             tide                   wrapping the loom        in sparkling


night                 is mapped with noise                venus comes up to cast her even pattern           shadow of the tread      alighting














Note: Chemical lace is a textile produced by embroidering a fine mesh and then submerging the fabric in a chemical solution to dissolve the mesh substrate. This process leaves behind a finely stitched lace design.

Submerge in chemical solution

chemical lace / day series

              morning/



the new light new again            still unclear


where the rays finally go            absorbed into infinite so-and-so


running stitch    the cord of my legs


chain linkripples some tree flesh


a new    form of                          execution             my body has never been unsafe


unless in public              due to its          holes       have you been laced through               like a purse, pierce a drink of   tall water

















              noon/



a tulip without its shadow


disclosure of the full image          the sun a coin            I can’t look at


divulge a turning           if a face is the part of a thing presented to view    but I cannot bear to receive


the present       the hot ray          diffused across warming skin   my tits pooling


the sun’s skin radiating itself                  touching even to the side of the universe I haven’t seen


                          stuck as I am on


                          my particular cloud














              deep afternoon/



fealty singing a pearl a pronounced quantity pearling    a number of incisions down the beast


of the tone         poised on         an edge of a cliff              like my flourish?  like my pith?


fluorescence      petalpetalpetal   becoming my own        little pet














              dusk/



the parting of the thing into      shallow and deeper dark














              evening/



kept to the garden        the gibbous hanging by a         sacrificial thread           pull thru to


the next            window            bobbing on the evening             tide                   wrapping the loom        in sparkling


night                 is mapped with noise                venus comes up to cast her even pattern           shadow of the tread      alighting