Green and Gold

for Stivenson Magloire

by Rachel Hadas

Amidst the glossy dark-green foliage

Of trees around the hotel pool,

I spy a low-hanging golden fruit.

So many trees whose names I do not know

And for the first time do not care to learn.

The overwhelming now in its countl...

Eshu through My Fingers

I was a slave.  They branded me,

marched me in shackles to the sea,

sent me in chains across the water –

horrors I only half remember

in dreams and visions from Eshu

who finally told me what to do:

tell the story, pass it on.

Make the awful mystery kno...

This is mostly a flow of computer generated images based on simple digital drawings. A variety of software was used to oscillate the images to simulate water, natural patterns, and other things. My intention is to animate nonphysical objects in painterly ways. I set up...