Bee Cave Arts Foundation
Hive Gallery
12700 Hill Country Blvd
Bee Cave, Texas
You like to be cleanBut you get dirty without apologyOr resentmentYou smell when you’ve been workingOf sweat and grease and trashAnd sticky icky gooAnd juice combined with brothNot in a recipe but on your skin aloneA smell that’s nowhere elseBut on youAnd on me when you touch meThe way I…
Such unaccountable masses of shades and shadows, that at first you almost thought some ambitious young artist, in the time of the New England hags, had endeavored to delineate chaos bewitched.
I have danced around the abyss before
Perched precariously
Along its jagged peaks
Seeking adventure
Just out of reach.
I have walked through the desert before
Parched and beaten
By the noon day sun
Seeking fortune
Or a little fun…
There’s no devastating surprise to slap you like cold water and wake from the dream…
