eye book
“Everything we dont understand
is explained
in Art
The Sun
beats inside us
The Spirit courses in and out
of us”
-Amiri Baraka (Funk Lore)
i am one of
Sebastiao Salgado’s workers
one of Kara Walker’s
pictures from another time
a reflection in black
as seen by Deborah Willis
i said yes
to Yoko Ono
drank milk n’ honey
with Abdul Mati Klarwein
found the journey to be the destination
in the journals of Dan Eldon
looked for myself
radiant in Francesco Mastalia and
Alfonse Pagano’s dreads
i exited the ports of entry
with William S. Burroughs
as Beuys taught me
that thinking is form
i crossed boundaries
with Maya Lin
i gained insight
and outsight
from Kurt Cobain’s
70 pg notebook
repelling ghosts
from the decade
of King Jean-Michel Basquiat
i took directions
from Christian Markclay and
EricKa Beckman
Art
is always
activism
we know, we who have been
Xed out of the American dream with Malcolm X –
pictures by Sue Coe
under the the police state
while
feeling the spirit
with Chester Higgins Jr.