Mighty Mercury

i fall onto

the skeletal pumpkin. it pushes me away. we sit in the fog together. condensation covers our faces. [why did you go into the tree, the skeletal pumpkin asks and burns its accordion face with a tiny match plant.] i bite the skeletal pumpkin. it presses its skeletal mouth together and whimpers several times. [i am not pie, the skeletal pumpkin says. how dare you treat me like that? do you think i am sugared and baked so that you can have a culinary delight? i am not. in fact, i am full of parsley leaves. they grow out of my seeds.

My First Funeral

I was the one they made climb in the casket. I was just a boy,

and I thought the sleek corners looked like a sports car, tight

through the turns, tires squealing.

Everyone was dead except for me and the morticians,

George Perrou's "Mod-Culture" art gives nods to Miro, Kandinsky and Calder as well as the Hanna-Barbera and Warner Bros. cartoons of his youth.

Perrou is self-taught and has developed a distinctive style all his own.

His work can be found in collections across the country.

One day the skin around his left eye swelled up and Howard Plumber caught sense of an expanding mosaic of mazelike patterns just beyond the edge of sight on that side. He put on shades and walked to the organic market a few blocks away, where he bought two little bottles of lemon oil and a blue glass spray bottle. After walking back home, he mixed the lemon oil with water and a dash of dish soap for homemade spider repellent according to a holistic health website, then shook it up in the bottle and sprayed it all over his mattress and pillows and the air conditioning vent behind his bed. The same website had also recommended alternating hot and cold compresses to make

Several years ago 
I first started a painting for you
one I still haven't shown you,
I knew you only as the funny older man
who'd sometimes show his face,
make a room full of people laugh,
or scare some away when you 
were in a bad mood.
We talked a little, not a lot.
I was fine with that then,

Double exposure series of images inspired by Carl Jung's theory of the shadow in each individual.