Personal Statement: I thrive on breaking diction and syntax patterns into atomic bits - I emphasize the seedy underbelly, the oft neglected components - I unfasten them and relegate them into something else.

A self-taught oil painter, I depict the images I cannot render in verse or in prose. I create clitoral/literal landscapes in abstraction—sometimes it is an image of an unexpected flower bed at Alcatraz, a window in illuminated aluminum. Often times, my poems form the soundtracks.