#1437 Message without words

4″x5″ Pen&Ink With 1,500 pieces behind me, I think I can give myself
permission to do minimalist work… messages without words.

We are destroying our world in a different kind of World War.
Most of the casualties go uncounted.
There is a connection, if you can parse it.
I was born, June 22, 1941–it’s no mystery to me.

#1436 The Edge (message from/for the Other/ side

4″x4″ Pen & Ink, watercolor
A poem, like any work of art, is a message without words.
The poem has words, but the message does not. One cannot ‘interpret’ a poem. Only, respond to it.

The truest response, like the poem, like any work of art, will be a message without words,
A response may take the form of another poem, a dance, music, a critical study. All with messages, opening endlessly like nested Russian dolls. All without words.