On the Bench

Sawako Nakayasu inspires this set of poems. She used the idea of balconies in nature to contrast the man-made with the simple green environment. I try to capture the same metaphor, the idea of sitting on a man-made item in the middle of nature. In this set of poems, I also wanted to capture the simplicity of being on the bench outside. You can see how simple actions can have large, even magnifiedthe void sutras is a book of poems and short prose by Alexx Bollen, author of "Periphery." It focuses on the spaces left between major moments in life, and the moments between poems. It's a meditation on the vacuum that is left when one's life has been changed by loss, or marked by absence.