Grains of Paradise

Medieval spice traders sold a variety of peppercorn called Grains of Paradise when they couldn't get their hands on black pepper. They claimed that it was taken from the stream that flows out of the garden of Eden as a way of inflating the price.
They are still available through specialty spice traders and they have a lovely, complex, rich flavor.

Accidental Sonnets

I actually wrote a sonnet entirely on accident the other day, and it was halfway decent but it was for two very specific people, so I won't post it here.

Grease Burns and Coffee Stains

Flash fiction and poetry, what is this, 2009? Hopefully I'm better now than I was then.

How I Will

Hmmm... I guess I'm in a mood tonight

Swirled Rooster

I haven't posted here in months! YEAH! Thaaatttt's terrible, I've been doing a lot of book arts stuff (ohlookafacebookgroupderp) for Paper Tapir. And ohmygod the Fruit of the Loom guys are riding ponies and pretending to be crazy medieval dudes---but I digress. Recently been doing a bunch of free hand inking. Here's the rooster from a couple days ago. Colors dropped in Photoshop. Yerp.

The Hunt

I cranked this out after class let out early, it doesn't make much sense, may work as a mood piece, but I really enjoyed writing it, a nice change of pace from my second novel and the play that I'm working on...

I've been really moving stuff around an unearthing old art I did in the past few years. It feels like "new"! This image really is new. It's a digital composition I created using a photo of a painting I'm working on (in progress, very "sketchy" atm) and some photos of ceramics I painted last year. Final form tbd.

Remembrance

Um, first thing I wrote on my new computer? Not very good, but...

Once

Just a little exercise, but it made me smile, so.

Every night

Umm, I'm really not sure about this...

And Silence in the Forest

But not silence from me! I finished something, shocking, I know. It's only like 3000 words, but hey, its a thing. Please, please, please tell me if it sucks, because if no one does I'm submitting it to a workshop in nine days...