Reading "Hot-Press Heritage" at Spoken Word Sarnia Feb.27, 2016

https://youtu.be/WwlzdS_qOLo

New Sheriff in Town

(On the occasion of artists Laurie Langford and Marshall Heaton’s exhibit, “Offhand Re-Marks”

 (February 18, 2016))

Wop, Wop, Wah…

Rev your hybrids boys

there’s a new Nancy in town.

The smoke blowing out of

your double-wide is

giving me a

C+ Athena labourpain,

with a cherry on top.

This incessant oral

occupation has got to

stop.

Do you think Mrs. Josephine Rabbit

put up with this shit?

No.

She raised four

cottontails

all on her own.

I’m handing in this apron

of silence, so

Tuck your tanks under these skirts

because this is mystory now.

Let me initiate you into

MY

dog-eat-dognity:

Δelta- Οmicron- Γamma.

It bites.

Ring those Bells Far Away Bobbie

with a twist,

and crown this

Queendom already.

- poet Alexandra Ghobhainn

[images: Laurie Langford & Marshall Heaton]

ArtSpace ‘Breaking Barriers’ Journalists, 2.9.2016

It’s our time

for the

organic Wildness

within

to step forth

with

dignity and

hope.

It’s time

for the

colours of our

Gardens

to climb

and walk

through the

webs of our pasts

out

into

the flower of

our future.

At 12 There is No Mask

At 12 There is No Mask

He was grinning -

sans mask -

in a photo with

friends at 12.

He is laughing like

a boy

of the earth and sky

no reticence no

 albatross on

his back.

No bills

 hurt, lies

no cynicism

yet.

No one has

taught him

to shield

who he is.

It hasn’t occurred to him

yet.

Here in this moment is just light

air of

serotonin joy

atoms floating

in

time and place

in that photo

at 12.

            ---

At 13,

 the photo

is  posed.

He decides where

to take it;

what he will wear

now

who he will choose

to be seen

with.

He constructs

his own Brand.

Who put that

first seed of,

‘You’re not good enough’

into his guarded™

eyes?

 Soiled his

free mind-of-possibilities

  with judgments

yet to be weighed upon

this guise?