Thought Collector

These are my active journals. I have a few more but...the one with the birds has a twin that belongs to my sister, Alicia. We keep random thoughts. I keep lists and dreams in it. The red one is an old typewriter manual i am converting into a sketch book. I am not living up to its full potential. The open one is an exercise book I found at the Found store in Ann Arbor. It's in German or something. The one with the picture is an italian journal I use for my poetry class. I love collecting thoughts and ideas and one notebook is never enough!



My handmade book entitled "Reverie."



souls/ seeking collison/ reaching for/ a trace

"YOUR FRIENDSHIP IS LIKE A KOOL-AID STAIN ON MY FAVORITE KEDS. YOU ARE ALWAYS THERE TO REMIND ME THAT I AM A FUCK-UP"

Ty Ennis, mixed media on paper, 2005 (tyennis.com)

Simulacrum

The space around me
Oozing thick marmalade
A pungent stain you claimed for yourself

Looming white bigger than you then
How did you win?

You overcame it—me
Seeping sharply like always
Just
Sliding
Past.

If you fill me, Why
Am I empty?

Though you mar me
I tell you
I feel nothing.

You said if I tipped it
I would see everything better
But I can’t make anything of



This positive void—



The glass is cloudy,
The liquid tepid.

There are no maps
You left only a blotch and
These arginine vessels
Too hollow for comfort.

I find that my shadow becomes me. I am more the shadow than my shadow self.



words i like:
meloncholy
buoyed
unquiet
unnacountable
distinguish
slumbers
temporal
convivial
slender
awake
stillness
interplanetary
cortlandt
immediacy
finality
subserviance
eloquent
conspicuous
unfinished
pugnacious
metallic
seclusion
seeking
paralell
vanished
fastidious
submission
allude
sacred
transgressive
ridges
divinity
obsequious
sanguine
bones
mordant