Patti Smith, Rock and Rimbaud Poetry flyer, 1973
offset print, 8 1/2"  x 11"

Scene: Wrong Equinox
(Vernal tidings gone awry; the beat at the start of the changing tide when one wave comes in just a little too far, then another and another)
Birds fluffed their chests and flew up and down in panicked vertical lines
Cats stood stock still and yowled
The town’s best fortune-teller lay in the town square and cried
Mary-making-soup let her stock boil dry watching the sun rise and set
Lois-in-bed pulled up the covers, filled with dread
Astronomers knocked on Church doors
Susan muttered to Kelly who muttered to Francis, who wiped her hands on her apron
The Easter Bunny came and went
People rushed about, too distracted to notice any eggs
Then Easter came and the eggs had gone off
Everyone went for their chamber pots
missed the Church service
“Wrong equinox,” Gregory said at last
to empty pews.

screne from Libretto by Claire Geddes Bailey, for Canzone at Unit 17

Inside the Garden of No, the peripatetic School of No, of which I am a student.

- Lisa Roberson, Instagram post 

 

Kelly Mark, Boomerang, 1998/2000

114 envelopes, dated and stamped

Robert Crumb, Shape Up!, 1982
ink, graphite, and correction fluid on paper, 7.9 × 6.8 inches

bill bissett & th Mandan Massacre - the canada council juree prson is missing

from Sonic Horses I, 1984

Lucy Lippard and Jerry Kearns, TENSE, 1984 (2022 reprint)

40 page offset booklet, 13 x 21 cm.

You're walking ... and you don't always realize it but you're always falling. With each step ... you fall. You fall forward a short way and then catch yourself. Over and over ... you are falling ... and then catch yourself. You keep falling and catching yourself falling. And this is how you are walking and falling at the same time.

Laurie Anderson, from Words in Reverse, Top Stories #2, 1979

Agnes Martin, The Wave, 1963

wood, plexiglass, and beads, 27.3 x 27.3 x 5.4 cm

Words with Spencer Lai

Spencer Lai, Modes, Installation view

Thomas Struth, Bright Sunflower No. 1, Winterthur, 1991
c-print, 84 x 66 cm