Strange Beauty Shows

Steven H. BridgensBorn: Kansas City Missouri Planet Earth 1949 the year of the first Soviet nuclear testParents: healers one trod the dark path and one the lightSiblings: one of each both younger iconoclasts and artistsProgeny: one son a man now with his own trajectory and dreamsCurrent Fascinations: words painting sculpture the ancient world or the idea of it particularlythe rebuilding of it silence and the absence of it sleep and the same dead bluesmen ancient Asian poets the demi-monde espionage imagined not real the primeval forestof Buddhism in all its humble glory the savage comic tyranny of the political stage the toxicand liberating proscenium of the internet the dark Jungian depths of the self the flickeringcolored shadows of the cinema and architecture the utopian possibilities of life on garden earthwith our liberated sentient friendsDeath: certain as to its eventuality but uncertain as to its time. Indifferent but not unconcerned.