Morning is dusty as his only clothes. Head cast down, he walks along a sidewalk crowded with ambition. All those shoes stomping over concrete squares. He stops. What's that? A tiny mirror? He picks up a ring that fits perfectly, belongs on his skinny finger. It's real silver with a blue gem! He knocks on the window of a parked taxi, asks the driver who wears a turban, What is this stone? Does it possess good juju? Through the gem's open base setting, light streams into him, blue blue cornflowers.
C. Albert‘s usual art medium is collage. After she began to include found words into her visual art, she decided to start writing poems. She is now equally drawn to both media. Her poems (and some collages) appeared this fall in Tattoo Highway, Pirene's Fountain and qarrtsiluni. She has two portfolio sites of collage and poetry, Runaway Moon and Aerial Dreams. She remarks that photographer Matthew Casey documented the demolition of the neighborhood apartment building that the homeless man in ―Million Dollars Views‖ actually lived in — the photo and poem seemed the perfect match, and TCE agreed. Another of their collaborations of photography and poetry was published in October 2009's issue of Pirene's Fountain. Buzz is they are planning more. Matthew Casey's website is forthcoming. Contact C. Albert: Runaway Moon & Aerial Dreams (http://www.runawaymoon.blogspot.com/) (http://www.aerialdreams.blogspot.com/) Contact Matthew (mtthwcasey@gmail.com)