Found Art

Below is material from what may seem an esoteric exercise from my last MFA residency, but I kind of liked what came out of it. This is actually just a part of the whole process, which involved the insertion of some other text between sections.

When all of it's said and done the process winds up being a bit of a psychological exercise that mines your thoughts about your writing. It really provides insight. I was amazed.

Our assignment was to seek out signs or words in our environment then write a few lines about each. Made me notice things I was walking past, for sure.

Outside the process, as a mixture of found art and text, this is what came about:

Waiting, unseen

To be of

Waiting underfoot

Notice

Service underground

Walk this way

Give me a hand

Give me feet

Give me a heart

The way you're supposed to be going is behind you

The way your are going is ahead

Gate keepers say turn back

Something says keep going.