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
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...
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