The complete inventory of everything that passed through

A Word Is A Room

A word is a room we walk through without a tour guide…

About

A Twin Cities creative practice transforming wonderful garbage into art across writing, visual work, installations, performance, and sound…

All Senses Human and Other Natures

NOTE ON SILENCE … Oldboy maestro…

All These Difficult Human Realities Inspirational

here is how it happened *…

All This Stuff Gratefully Will Carry Us to Our Deathbed Days

Miss Mr … Miss Mr…

Also Backwards and Right Side Up

Take kindness back begins with us…

Asking

It begins before you're ready…

Before the Orange Sky Changed to Fire Red

Ray guns freaks…

Big Problems Take Longer To Fix

So like when you accidentally put your t-shirt on backwards…

Big Time Art

Here comes a one percent-er in a silk suit with entitlement pockets…

Blended Zebra Mussel Memory

Arriving in the ballast water of a vessel carrying something unknown…

Blue Ball Mess And Mix

this is who we are … no axe to grind…

Board Of Meeting Seriously

We love this … from the top and bottom of our heart and soul combined!

Border Wall Size Mirror of Nonbiodegradable Stuff

We want to be that that is in between two targets…

Both Natures Spell on Us

Earthly heavenly conflict zone and conflict zones…

Bowed Cello Playing Sound Of Words Next To A Killing Field

we sometimes have a lot of fear…

Broken Caucasian Ruler

Of European origin. Rule of thirds…

Brown Paint

Grace and Fadima are painting again…

Brrd Message To All Senses Active Receivers

mend hurts … mend hurts…

Buried Disclosure

Oyparaploo: We're in an archeological dig right now, but we're not supposed to tell you the location…

Busy Mind To Silent Monk Walking

we are desperate because we sense deceased kindred spirits…

Careful Children

SAfeTy First…

Catch Our Hug Hold Ride

Opening is always a risk…

Clasp Of The Political Class

The children we grew up with in buckskin…

Compost Aroma Almost Poem

"Stinky" was a joke…

Conduction

A grandmother's kitchen in Milwaukee…

Contemporary Subdued Deep Red Blend

It is just too painful to show red blood…

Could Of Should Of Sentence

Written sentence and prison sentence combined or wonderfully woven together in speech…

Curious Summary in The Form of a Rare Instruction

You did it again!

Different Animal

Ten digits from caked chemical resistant gloves and half of a slightly rusty tin snips…

Early Morning To Midafternoon Conversation With A Baobab Tree

early morning — the light barely arrived…

Ever So Present Ruining of Our Nation

The rest of our body is not a floating parade…

Fluid Mosaic

Regarding portrait paintings…

Forms That Refuse Stillness

What if form refused to hold still?

Fourteen Frequencies of We're Going To Shine

Warm bodies in a room and one dog…

Grand Illness

Delivered/Recorded and Physical Feet Lived Journal…

Hand Me the Matches

Hand me the matches…

Here for goodness sake but a little extra weary

Save the actual voice for later…

How Bad We Love This Type Of Life

Prompts humming in heads wanting to pick up another sweet rotation…

In the Oyparaploo Way of Conjuring

We hear a theme of softness…

Lake Salt Broken Flight

Flocks of migrating birds…

Let the Wild Thing with a Pulse Move

Yes, we have a banana to hold with our left or right hand…

León ( Lion ) oder ( or ) Agneau ( Lamb )

Rest en an yay ounya Oy~n azz…

Minutes Open

How is the start of your morning going?

Night Tell Us Why Lomah

Every hour we walk by displays and synchronicity of people going from here to there and back again…

Not Close To A River This Time

It has rhythm but is more like a tributary system…

Plantless Garden

We can't tell you how it all works…

Queen of the Patches

There must have been some folly that brought you here…

Red Tongues First

Oyparaploo speaking on the surface of Indigenous red tongues first…

Sad Things and Disturbing Objects

Typical humans get famous for something and too easily lose sight of…

Sensing If There Might Be Another Major Collapse

Hey. We are not going to fix anything in the next few sentences…

Sturdy Pockets

Hand me the matches … sleep comes dropping slow now during our later years…

Super Flu Vessel

was one of the lesser-known second large November…

The Drawer That Stays Closed

The Grenade She Was Always Carrying

In a Rust Belt town where the blast furnaces cooled before she was born, a singer discovers that the contralto register — the lowest female voice — activates the Pacinian corpuscles in the listener's chest…

The Guitar in the Broken Case

A woman in Sault Ste…

The River

The great river. The Mississippi…

Thirty Years

This is the New World We Live In

Ding Dong. We did a little HGv E-Riff back in the day…

Three Mutual Aid Weeks In A Row

Total darkness, water all around, and the world not yet switched on…

Tier Heart Wetness

NOTE ON SILENCE … Oldboy maestro…

Unnamed Water Mill Stones

Landing cold from out of the blue…

We Think You Misunderstood

Thirty or so rules and hard stops…

We Tried Our Best To Resolve The Situations

Thankfully nobody organized against the work…

West Has Blessed Voices

West has blessed voices…

What is the Rationale for No Hands

Frames crop hands on rifles…

What the Bluffs Returned — Lenore Strand

She made her first public appearance at fourteen, singing folk songs with her older sister June at the coffee house on Third Street in Winona…

What the Wreckage Knows

The old woman laughs like something breaking…

What Went Wrong?

No Backlash Periods what so ever…

Where To Place The Chairs

She had her back to them…

Why Another Foot Is Important

Every previous piece started from an object and described what it saw…