Zombie Self-Portrait
I remember the first year art had changed
the art making happened in the neglected rental
with strangely shaped rooms and walls
crawling with words
and mysteriously the electricity was spotty
crackling, black-stained extension cords
ideal for her plans
astral abstractions on canvas and paper
graphite greys and jaundiced yellows
a figure made of nightmare
early evidence of zombification
long tresses of hair and insects
jellyfish sacs and vermin
snakes for flesh
surrounding a grinning set of human teeth
dumpster-dive faces,
masks of mess
black hole covered over
with an aggregate of natural wonders
and street horrors
