the art and writing of

   DJ Gaskin

DJ Gaskin

News and recent work...

  • Green Spring Gardens Springfield Art Guild exhibit – September 2011 - "When Daisies Talk" - reception Sunday, Sept. 11, 1 - 3 p.m.
  • Del Ray Artisans Art From Everyday Life September 2011 - "The Offering" and "Blue Shoe Bouquet"
  • The Art League 'Scapes exhibit - August 2011 - features the award-winning "Winter's Depth"
  • Several new poems recently accepted for publication: "Seven Moon Drive Opus" will appear in the summer 2012 issue of the esteemed Gargoyle Magazine; and, five poems -- including "The First Prairie Falcon" and "Crow Speaks" -- are coming in the next issue of Iodine Poetry Journal 
  • More exhibit info
  • DJ on Facebook    

                      Cat's Eye View 
                              evening of September 11th

Listen to the poet read this poem here....   

                She

doesn’t know

the bright flames

and loud eruptions

are anything

but dazzling colors

and captivating

sounds for her

to take swipes at

from her safe

shelf in the cabinet

above.  

                She can’t

comprehend

the consuming

chatter of the men

and women inside

the box whose dark faces

flicker between the

clamor.  

                She, in her

sweet nescience,  

doesn’t get

that my yowling

is different from

hers, that it isn’t

just a thorn

in my paw or hunger

for something

just out of

reach now.  

 

 

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