#sibling project

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Self-Recriminations

Blindly, I embed each razored word I speak, like dormant seeds, into the surrounding ground.  Then wait, without surprise, for the vindictive vines to snake along my legs and spine stripping flesh from bone, like butchers applying their keen knives to the unvoiced tendons of the dead; until I wail long ululations of despair to the wind, as if my coy innocence had not vanished like breath into the icy air’s silence with the first soft words I spoke to you.

(from “Arcana, VIIIswords, February 27, 2014)

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The fourth illustration in my Siblings series is up on my Patreon! This time I drew my favourite water tribe siblings. The post is available for $3 and up tiers!

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i’m currently working on the next piece for my siblings in media project. taako and lup are up next, and i just uploaded the first sketch to my patreon, where it’s available for all tiers ($1 and up!), so please consider supporting me there! i’ve already completed one piece for this series featuring overwatch’s shimada brothers) and it’s up on patreon as well. many more sibling duos will follow, including edward and alphonse from FMA and sokka and katara from ATLA!

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Arcana Project

I reposted all of the Major Arcana,  for which my sister has completed her illustrations. She is still working on The Star, Judgement, and the World. 

(This is from a series called “Arcana.” It is a joint poetry/ visual art project based on the tarot pack. I have written a poem connected to each of the cards of the tarot deck. My sister, Firethorn Studio, is illustrating at least the 22 major arcana.

If interested, you can find all of the arcana poems at my writing blog, here.  If you click on the tag arcana you can find them all.

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19: Now You Know

 Who stares at the sun?

Such clarity permeates

all darkness:  My eyes!

 ( November17, 2013)

(This is from a series called “Arcana.” It is a joint poetry/ visual art project based on the tarot pack. I have written a poem connected to each of the cards of the tarot deck. My sister, Firethorn Studio, is illustrating at least the 22 major arcana. I am reposting the major arcana in order. This is #20)

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11:  with all equanimity

 as if any given can be divined

as to its true justification

yes no yes no yes separated until

the true binary collapses to one

which is squarely seen to be no

more than what is said to be

stripped clean of any tacit

obligations to more than now

without causality’s shades clouding

stark judgment’s clear sight

as she lays her lidless eyes upon my life

then turns upon the detritus

to make similar claims upon it all

 (November 10, 2013)

(This is from a series called “Arcana.” It is a joint poetry/ visual art project based on the tarot pack. I have written a poem connected to each of the cards of the tarot deck. My sister, Firethorn Studio, is illustrating at least the 22 major arcana. I am reposting the major arcana in order. This is #12)

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9: In Solitude I Walk

 I move within the tatters

of the world knitting

frantically alone beneath

a fractured light:

a candle allows

a small comfort

against the dark,

blinding its aura

along night’s edge

like beads of blood

across a knife’s blade.

  (November 8, 2013)

(This is from a series called “Arcana.” It is a joint poetry/ visual art project based on the tarot pack. I have written a poem connected to each of the cards of the tarot deck. My sister, Firethorn Studio, is illustrating at least the 22 major arcana. I am reposting the major arcana in order. This is #10)

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4: Draw a Line

Just as you can only see your face’s reflection,

Only you know what you know and do within.

What aspect are you willing to show?

What part of you will you risk

To save the part of you that’s you?

Can you still find the line to protect

The border of what you call home?

Or can you further sub-divide your soul,

Until there’s nothing left of you at all?

(November 5, 2013)

(This is from a series called “Arcana.” It is a joint poetry/ visual art project based on the tarot pack. I have written a poem connected to each of the cards of the tarot deck. My sister, Firethorn Studio, is illustrating at least the 22 major arcana. I am reposting the major arcana in order. This is #5)