'i am alone and forever will remain so even in the company of my many sisters'

boy w large balloon

and does the eye not shoot beams that seem to travel to the target of what's seen?

'save us''

the word bucket for instance has no bottom although bottoms are necessary to buckets and cannot be avoided

'we lived in a bag when you were little'

'in a bag?'

'yes, sewn into a bag'

'i liked it there. i liked it in that bag.'

“child seated on hare”

“may i ask humbly ask may i?”

“if the alphabet destroyed the human capacity for memory & poetry and we live on in some agonizing later day?”

“EATING CANDY”

“all the birds were dreaming of the same crumb of bread, a modest crumb, but real, just within reach—a crumb the others did not see”

“sulking?”

they put the wrong things in

on two legs! on four legs! with hands tied!

“I wanted so much to see you, but I had no face, no hands anymore, no heaving chest. I went down to the boat house, and saw that the party had gone out already onto the water, and you were there, laughing with the others, a scarf around your neck like a hideous invitation…”

-a skull named “little sister”-

Happy pub day to Jesse Ball and AUTOPORTRAIT. Grateful to have gotten to work on the design and lettering. Animation by Elizabeth Yaffe.