i saw an invisible embrace on the playground, next to pier 21 on my empty walk, it spoke in long bright waves: “people will be confusing, you will be confusing, meanness is just all the knots inside, behind, twisting into an elephant that doesn’t know how he got here and he wants to dissolve back to heaven and we just have to untie the knots” (2024) 6x3 ft, mixed media on canvas, natural maple frame