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all the while deftly shoveling the impossible contradictions, contraband, & disheveled contraindications into the falsely glowing embers of pit, feeling, however, a regularly measured & growing disdain
(for the sake of progress & heaping forevermound of outrageously proportioned ditz)
disguised ever so cleverly as
(& with far more vain than)
a saffron heart (if you please), a whiff & a will-o’-the-wisp of something more than, O,
I don’t know,
anything more than this. * v/r, shine
Red, Black and Blue (mixed media: acrylic, graphite, charcoal, masking tape on canvas, 40x30) by George Scott
Raleigh resident GEORGE SCOTT grew up in Monroe, NJ. He graduated with honors from NC State University with a degree in graphic design. He spent five years in the Army and served in Operation Desert Storm as a member of the 82nd Airborne. His art has been exhibited in several shows in Raleigh, NC, including a solo exhibition at Lee Hansley Gallery. The artist and his wife, Sara Birkemeier, own and operate 8 Dot Graphics in Raleigh. See more of his work accompanying 2012 and 2013 Doris Betts Fiction Prize finalist stories in NCLR Online 2013 and NCLR Online 2014, and on his website.
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