Author
Stephen Mead
5 works
Resident artist/curator for The Chroma Museum, https://thestephenmeadchromamuseum.weebly.com/ Stephen Mead has intermittently been submitting work for publication going on four decades. He remains grateful to all of the editors who have given his work a good home as now, retired from his day job, he is busy trying to sell his 40-year backlog of art, https://www.artworkarchive.com/profile/stephen-mead
Deep Water
Ages sleep, rock-mysterious: the fossils of lava flooding senses fathom
by the lights of fish blind themselves in their own darting schools,
pearlescent as targets only carbon's neon strobes
Disturbing Peace (Based on the film, “Closet Land”)
For her, when the closet dreams again began their terror was that of stillness,
& that stillness the kind of cemeteries. Away, she could rationalize this, say
that the grave coats were only cloth, the narrowing light, only a viewpoint,
Information Society
Fear. Numbers. Money----
All bottom line criteria detailing this century
resulting from ignorance & an enlightenment
Shell Seekers
Also must search the embankments,
the shores for your crypt, all those emblems -
beloved, beloved - our fingertips leave...
Waking the Body
Might sodium pentothal work or perhaps amnesia,
a clean slate, no shame, no idea -
(is there?) - of lacking...