conversing with a cowpoke.

Patti Smith is my philosophical cowpoke.  She appears in my drifting dreams; dialogue with her occurs  while I sleep.  Much like the “mysterious cowpoke [who] chanced upon in a dream to determine the course of the rock poet’s memoir, M Train,” Patti Smith reminds me, much like her cowpoke does, that “it’s not easy writing…

upcycled cool.

i have a confession to make … i am a chronic hoarder.  a hoarder of magazine articles and newspaper clippings.  to me, these mediums are just as treasured as a book.  my masterpiece of a library (to be built one day, sigh) will have endless stacks of yellowed paper painted with times roman ink.  i rescue these pages from…