Aside from my engagement ring, the oldest thing I wore today was my smile! I was in NYC for an orthodontic appointment—working on improving this ol’ grin of mine.

I took a visit to the Museum of Modern Art while I was in the city. Inspired by beautiful phrasings created by curators and the signage from the artists throughout my visit, I began to jot them down. The following poem uses only word couplings found on signage throughout the exhibits to evoke the experience of the art viewer as they grasp at meaning behind the images.

Weekday at the MoMA

mirando y preguntando 
Refracted doublings
shifting experience
igniting imagination

A painting as a portal:
thinking, feeling, being
Chaos and Control
Liberation

Ravaged communities
resist disenfranchisement 
Bound together
in eloquent rage

raw 
   emotional
            hardship
Rivers of code
Exploitation

unsung histories
unprecedented visions
reframe narratives
promote recognition

radically reorienting
preexisting bodies
Poetic and Political
Commemoration

An inward turn.

mainstream culture:
moral decline

Crawl ‘til I’m reality
       fueled by aspiration

Anxiety, Optimism
rapidly reshaping
radical possibilities
Legacy and Trauma

Ambition, Optimism
Transformative tide
Pivotal forces
Home as an experimental site
Home as a modern laboratory

Immediate
Unvarnished
Impulse to engage
Circulate widely
Memorializing pain and love

Incessantly immersing
Searching, Adjusting
Viscerally forward
Fierce sense of purpose
Distilling vast
Amplifying 

Explorations are evident
Highest ideals of humankind
Profound form
Synthesize sensorial
Entirely new
Human subject: haunted