a grotesque image
blurred edges
dark colors and modelling
the omens of El Greco
no light from outside
a mother hunched
slumped to one side of a rocking chair
haloed
as Munch might paint his tragic Madonna
but desolate
as a Kollwitz figure
appalled at the apparition before her
not her child--
she looks past the ghostlike baby.


#1, The Nuclear Family
#2, Fall Campaign
#3, Principles of Geology