SELF PORTRAIT: Throwing Armfuls of Air into the Air

Nor that he's regarding my face with the same intensity I am his. We're two paintings staring at each other across a room.

And I see that his brown eye has a splash of green in it and the green one a splash of brown. Like Cezanne painted them. Impressionist eyes.

Portrait: The Boy with All the Keys in the World with All the Locks

This is how he came out: he floated into the air high above the sleeping forest, his green hat spinning a few feet above his head. In his hand was the open suitcase and out of it spilled a whole sky of stars.