nail clippers in a dream

Skunked.

the rosebuds know it's spring
in this cold cutting wind
red robes move in lines
& a purple martin leaps
watch the sun come up over turkey mountain

"One of these anecdotes, about the nightmares induced in the young Hans Rudi by a stairway in the hotel next door to the Giger family home, is recounted in Passagen alongside the vertiginous drawings the nightmares inspired. It’s impossible to consider this piece of child psychology, and to watch the artist walking up and down stairs and stepladders, without recalling that Giger died after falling down a flight of stairs in 2014."