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The Makers Fence

8/25/2018

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When knowledge drove out innocence,
And joy flowed from disobedience
New acts evolved to common sense.
Sinful, perhaps, but devoid of pretense.
Yet still some longing for a past thence
Holy clowns juggling logic in defense
Of frightened meat shrinking the immense
To singularities -- infinite condense
Down to simplicity meant to dispense
More than fragrant smoke from incense,
A certainty, a hand, a word that will commence
Erasing the chaos in existence.
By god relieved of any punitive expense,
Save for Peter's pence,
The divine given presence
Stand guilty hence
For the world the makers fence.

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Dancers

8/21/2018

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Been distracted by other events lately, but new writing is on the way.  Mainly I've got some poetry in the pipeline as well as a brand new "Why I Quit" so stay tuned for that.  Meanwhile, I've got these two abstracts I recently completed.  Their respective titles are "Frost Dancer" and "Concrete Dancer" because that's what they called to mind.  Perhaps you see something different.  I hope you do, and mention it in the comments.  Enjoy!
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Tabernacle

8/10/2018

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Adventures in art continue.  This time I actually aimed to make something with more definition.  While still mildly abstract in certain ways, I think this steers the viewer more than, say, my previous piece (scroll down to view).  That said, despite the title -- that's the first thing I thought when I stepped away -- what any other viewer sees, however, is entirely up to them.  Maybe you see a generator spewing arcane energy into the atmosphere.  Perhaps you see a ghostly relic sucking in crimson nightmare fuel.  Enjoy whatever story you're inspired to see.  
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Drink It in, Meaning Less

8/9/2018

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Got bored, made art.  It's as simple as that.  My main goal this time around was to try not to overthink things.  So I just let this happen.  I like where things went.  As such, here's "Remember It in, Meaningless."  Enjoy!
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Liquor Bottle Improv

8/4/2018

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We threw a sea pearl in the crow canyon
Then continued with wild abandon.
Walking the Fox Brook marking west
Then crowning a royal hoping the best.
Did you hear the reserve say
Woodford owns sapphires from Bombay?
 
A half acre from nowhere clear
The holiest heretic made us hear
The old pale rebel joke,
"Cigar City is going up in smoke.
So have zero fear!
The revolution must be near."
Because that metropolis
Is a smoggy necropolis,
Smoldering proof of that and this
Except the truth we all miss.
 
Though bloody, ever onwards
A legion of arrogant bastards
Making good use of stars
Wandering home to bars;
Trudging after graves
Twilight gladly saves
For the walking dead
Seeking a bed;
 
Pirates led by the red Fox
Sailing ocean to sea thru locks,
Oblivious to curses and pox
Lobbed in Caribbean docks.
Arriving upon the equinox
At the school of hard knocks,
Glad to graduate to a pine box.
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    J. Rohr enjoys making orphans feel at home in ovens and fashioning historical re-enactments out of dead pets collected from neighbors’ backyards.

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