Painting: “(Forensic) Medicolegal Coyote and Maggot King©️ Visit Some Mysterious Friends At Their Temple“

 “(Forensic) Medicolegal Coyote and Maggot King©️ Visit Some Mysterious Friends At Their Temple“

16X20” Oil on panel.

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Poem: (Re)Visiting The Dead

Head on my pillow

dozing o f f

Suddenly

a flash of a PLACE

will come to mind

will visit my rest.

All of the details of the place

so vivid that

I sense that I am there.

It’s a shock to my rest

how detailed such old memories can be

The sense of the place so clear in my pillowed head

the it jerks me briefly far away from my rest.

The dead of the place

Were the reason I was at that place sometime in the past

Death scenes from 

5 years

10 years

20 years past.

THEY are often present

As my memory re-visits 

the place

the presence of the dead isn’t scary.

They are just dead

They are Memories of the dead

We can re-visit the dead

(and their PLACES).

The dead do not visit us

Because they are gone

        And all the gods are gone too.

I do not like these dozing-off visits

There are no greetings

no conversation

just observation.

They are visits without a host

No sociality

I’m alone

All is imagery in these rooms

in these places.

I shake my head

change the thought

Adjust my pillow

and re-visit my rest.

©️Montgomery J Nelson

IPhone Pic and Poem

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              Our front door is obscured by fig leaves.

              Pope Clement XIII 

              had nothing to do with it.

                                                                           

             ©️Montgomery J Nelson

Poem and Illustration: Corgis

 Poem and Illustration

The two corgis on the couch

are mostly still.

Their bodies moving softly as they breath.

The corn stalks outside of the window behind them

twitch and wiggle in the wind.

The two ceramic corgis on the shelf next to the couch

aren’t moving at all.

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Drypoint Print: Coyote and Crow

 Drypoint of a Coyote and a Crow. Coyote playing dead to capture a crow (?).

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After: Physiologus, c.1300.

Stuff I LOVE to use: Gfeller Field Case

 I’ve experimented with many ways to carry notebooks and pencils, from Zip-loc bags to various commercially made pouches. I’ve tried all kinds of things, I even used to carry my Filofax in a furoshiki wrap. Last year, I recalled that back in MT the geology and forestry folks would carry their field notebooks in awesome leather cases made by a company in Idaho. It turned out that GFELLER LEATHER CASEMAKERS made exactly what I needed: a case that will fit my favorite notebooks and my pencils. Most of the time I carry the Rhodia, but will replace it with the Zeta book if I’m feeling especially artsy for an outing. These cases are serious kit. Without equivocation, I’d put them as equal to any business cases made anywhere. 

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My favorite books are the RHODIA webnotebook, dot grid, 5.5 x 8.3” and the STILLMAN AND BIRN, Zeta Series, 5.5 x 8.5”.

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Gfeller’s Field case XL with optional shoulder strap. 

Accessories (left to right): photo scale; Koh-I-Noor 5.6mm lead holder; three Faber-Castell TK9400s (H, 2B, and blue); 6” Westcott Ruler.

Printmaking: Medicolegal Coyote en route to a bacchanal and a moth (Acherontia)

Medicolegal Coyote cosplays as a Faun en route to a bacchanal.

Lino block hand-printed on Mulberry paper. 8x10”.

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Dry point of a moth. 

Hand-printed with an Akua pin press on Arches 88 printmaking paper,5x7”.

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