Slip by Christopher Stackhouse

Slip
29 pages
$6

Christopher Stackhouse is a painter, draftsman, and poet. He is a Cave Canem Writers Fellow, a Fellow in Poetry from the New York Foundation of the Arts, and a poetry editor for Fence Magazine. His work has appeared in Hambone, nocturne(s), and Aufgabe as well as other journals. He is co-author of a limited edition hand crafted artist book Seismosis (The Center for Book Arts, 2003), which features selected drawings in collaboration with writer John Keene's selected texts. Seismosis Complete Drawings and Texts will be published in spring of 2006 by 1913 press.

Mark

as a mark is made it becomes an image

as you make a mark you become the image

of an image making a mark—remaining

frames your tree as what was once now gone

the “ephemeral monument” to phosphorescence or

the vapor, the audience, the contrast, the sophist-

ication swollen by a bee sting, sort of reddish,

a pyrotechnist “walking the finale”—