Blood For Oil

by John Kurtyka
copyright 2008



Note: This is part of a series of small drawings enlarged and manipulated on the computer. If you are interested in it or others for sale, please let us know and I will inform the artist.

Hump

by David Larimore
copyright 2008


This is another of David Larimore's elegantly whimsical and originally rendered new series of paintings.

To have a taste of his work come to Thursday Gig at Got Art? Gallery, August 21, 2008 at 24 N. Santa Cruz Ave. in Los Gatos--as well as hear poets Evelyn So and Wendy Taylor Carlisle. Potluck and experimental music by John Kurtyka and Chris Arcus begins at 6:30 PM; featured artist Q & A at 7:15. Featured poets at 7:30. Open Mic follows featured poets.

Judgment Day

by Evelyn A. So
copyright 2008

We’re back here again, caught
in this endless kírkos of blame.
Who owes whom? How much?
Until when?

Even if we forgive each other’s
old debts, another roomful
waits for the chance to come
face to face with its creator.

Karma, your currency’s no good
here; it’s our faith that’s in mortal
danger. What’s the sum
of our deficits and saving
graces? The chips are down

and the wheel keeps spinning.
Only the banker knows what
change to make and the back
door to the house where all
bets come.

Note: “Judgment Day” is featured in the new issue of Reed Magazine.

Evelyn So will be featured along with poet Wendy Taylor Carlisle and artist David Larimore this August 24th, 2008 at Thursday Gig at 24 N. Santa Cruz Avenues, 6:30-9:30 PM. Improvisational music will be played by John Kurtyka and Chris Arcus.

Anima-Lover

by David Larimore
copyright 2008



This is another of David Larimore's new paintings that may be included in his show at Thursday Gig at Got Art? Gallery on August 21, 2008 at 24 Santa Cruz Ave., Los Gatos, CA 6:30-9:30 PM with poets Evelyn So and Wendy Taylor Carlisle.

Green Dancer

by Elizabeth Parashis
acrylic on paper
copyright 2008
click to enlarge image

Homage to Charles M. Schulz

by Evelyn A. So
Copyright 2008

How dare you dance!
scolded Lucy. Don’t you know
there are problems in this world?
How’s dancing going to solve them?

And Linus might have said:
for everything there is a season—
a time to cry, a time to dance!

But he and Snoopy laugh themselves silly,
spinning arm in arm and singing.
And along comes Woodstock
and Sally and Charlie Brown
and Schroeder and Peppermint Patty and Marcie,
even Lucy and the girl with naturally curly hair
kick up their heels.

As one beagle might
bang on the typewriter
— the world’s full of possibility
for those who greet it
with open arms. Even Lucy agrees
when she takes the doctor’s seat.
Five cents please.

Note: “Homage to Charles M. Schulz” is featured in Reed Magazine’s new website, http://www.reedmag.org.

The above poem is an ekphrastic poem that Evelyn was inspired to write while studying ekphrastic poetry (poetry about other art forms) in the spring of 2007.

Paul Klee

by David Larimore
copyright 2008
please click on picture to enlarge



Note: David Larimore will be showing his work at Thursday Gig, August 21, 2008 at Got Art? Gallery at 24 N. Santa Cruz Ave. in downtown Los Gatos, CA. The Gig will be from 6:30 until 9:30 PM.

Dreaming of Nasturtiums — or The Red Empress

by Bea Garth
copyright 2008

The garden dreams of nasturtiums
yellow climbing the walls
Red Empress of India
and poppies, poppies, poppies
opening up laudanum
for the humming birds
whirring that message
zipping into one’s brain
the sunlight
the green leaves
the cats pouncing on crickets
the worms cogitating in the mounds
lifting breast like
as the yellow and green summer squash
trumpet Peter Pans and zucchinis
for us to eat
for us to loll and enjoy our tears
feeding the soil
removing the rocks
squashing the armies
of snails and slugs
hiding under the abalone shells
and river rocks and bricks
lining the garden
circling the apricot tree
and I see you sitting on the grass
as I bend over the breasts
the black/brown mounds
the wire baskets tunneling out
into the sky like scaffolds
rising rising our spirits
our dreams
me in my bare feet
you with your flowered
tight underpants
paint splotched and worn
building the fence
between our yard and the next
a pale blue/gray
echoing the snap beans
the beans we made love amongst
like two empyreans
two nymphs
like satyrs
like the Empress of India
in her red robes and green finery
oh how she smiles
as we eat her flowers
and round scalloped leaves
oh how we smile
as we cut the lemon cucumbers
and oil them
feeling the coolness
reminding me of last year’s
long elongate trumpets of cukes
hanging like dicks
and the witches I shared them with
in our circle circled
by all those red shining tomatoes
reflecting your red and green robes
our delight profound
our delight as we cried
into the earth.

Videus-omnia

by David Larimore
acrylic painting
copyright 2008



"Fingers held upon one's lips. In this painting I wanted to convey the elusive state of humbling oneself enough to fully-take-in ; before inevitably asserting comprehension via necessary but imperfect words. A recognition of the sublime Wholeness beyond perhaps any one persons full illumination."--David Larimore

Note: This is one of David Larimore's new series of paintings which will be shown at the next Thursday Gig in Los Gatos on August 21st, 2008. For more info. contact Elizabeth at artpages@earthlink.net. The venue will either be up in the Los Gatos hills in the courtyard at 42 Central Ave. or at Got Art? in downtown Los Gatos. More details of the exact location later as we learn more...

FAST EXPRESSION

by Greg Hall
copyright 2008

JB utters the seven
syllables of “BLUES”
in less time than anybody WHO
was ever BORN
“people”
“let me”
“tell you”
“the news”
)the “cold”
“sweat”
of 3 A.M.
“Got nothing”
“ON ME”
but people
let me
tell YOU
the “old” “guy”
“THING”
“is”
“UNDER”
“RATED”
You HANGAROUND
WIT ME
A BIT
“You”
“WILL”
“GET”
“SOME”
“BLUES” said
with seven syllables
SO QUICK
“You don’t know”
“whether to run”
“shit”
or
“go”
“blind”
Love
You
BABY