Poem: either / or

we do not always (read: seldom) have

choices or

opportunities to call

chances for how

the outcome arrives

alive in expectations we

genuflect gyrations to

promises unkept and either swept or

wept away

you swept me off my feed all

enthusiastic and smiling (a smile that

feels endless) ending

spending our hearts ration of

rational being

beating so out of tempo either

two hundred beats per minute

or paused to a stop

--- douglas brent smith

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You Can Be Positive

You Can Be Positive - collage by douglas brent smith.

Levitating a Small Guitar - sketch by douglas brent smith (probably 1991). "Do you think that he could levitate a large guitar, that is to say, a normal sized guitar as well?" "No doubt. It might take some practice, though." "Does it come naturally?" "It comes with practice." "That is more like a ukulele than a guitar." "Nope. It has six strings. Guitar." "Small" "But he could also levitate a large guitar. Maybe one wasn't available." "Well, you've got to start someplace." "Yes." - dbS -

One Spirit One Energy One World

One Spirit One Energy One World - collage by douglas brent smith, 16 November 1991

A Full Moon Wasn't The Half of It

A Full Moon Wasn't The Half of It -- collage by douglas brent smith, 1986

Worldview Built In A Day With Fire

Worldview Built In A Day With Fire - collage by douglas brent smith, 3 January 1988 Something about this collage causes me to page quickly past it, yet if I spend more time absorbed in it there is more to see. I pondered cropping it. I cut out dozens of pieces of pictures that could go in with it, but found it hard to obscure the central image. Worldview? Examination? Built in a day? The hints of mixed media with the pen lines were attempts to draw it all together. Did it work?

Transporting The Message Keeper

Transporting The Message Keeper -- collage by douglas brent smith

Worldview Built In a Day

Worldview Built In a Day - collage by douglas brent smith, 3 January 1988

What The Cats Discovered

What The Cats Discovered - digital collage by douglas brent smith, 2 March 2024 With glue and paper, once you've set the glue you either live with it, tear it off, or paste something over it. That makes the work exacting and a bit risky. With a digital collage, such as this one, you can change your mind and simply iterate. That's fun, too. There could be an endless series of versions of the same picture that is not the same picture. I don't necessarily want that, but I wasn't sure I was satisfied with the first version (above) so here are some alternatives. The What the Cats Discovered Remix, or More of What The Cats Discovered: More of What The Cats Discovered (Outside Remix) - douglas brent smith 2 March 2024 ore of What The Cats Discovered, Inside Remix, douglas brent smith 2 March 2024 What one do you like the best? I promise that I will NOT do this with every collage. Tonight, it was fun.

Examination of the Numbers People

The Examination of the Numbers People -- collage by douglas brent smith

Spotted Off The Coast of Jersey

Spotted Off The Coast of Jersey -- collage by douglas brent smith

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