I AM 18x20

I AM 18x20For Shannon. There is so much separation within the pieces but its the spaces between the lines that create the whole picture, the whole feeling, the whole truth. I have a way of picking it all apart, a talent at only looking at the imperfection coupled with master hallucination skills to back up whatever pain the separation Im creating is bringing up. I am a ray of light unsplintered, concise in my truth, in my space, in my frequency. Bright as the

deep violet eyes

Whatever I expected

No family of the marching band and musical theater is going to get away with not having a single sequin on their symphony portrait

And she lived in the American desert

I loved it

did grow up and become and had to un become

I dreamed of being an adult someday so I could drive a teal trans am or a jeep-like

only to go to great lengths to get all of the paint off of my hands

The novel is told in the first person from the point of view of Astrid Magnussen

Even in my 20s

The galaxy of all galaxies

and water spirits all bring to your heart