Zombie Self-Portrait (Plunderverse Poem # 4)

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