Urban Light, 2008 by Chris Burden

Robert Fernandez

indeed
there is
a feeling
to the dawn-
ing of re-
demption

when we
realize we
have passed
the thres-
hold and
arrived at

something
new like
seeing
the impossible
become
a glimmer

of potential
become
the blaze
of the actual
and standing
in its light

and feeling
the heat
of the truth
that everything
has irreparably
changed


Lord, When I Feel like This It’s Like Running an Ink Brush Through Ash

Robert Fernandez

after all
I’m in my
copper
velvet
pants
out of
Goya’s

The Straw
Manikin

and my
cheeks
are rosy
and I am
smiling

and I
am pass-
ive and
accept-
ing and
I am pass
sieve

and ready
for what-
ever you’
ve got
ready for
whatever
you’ve got


Joyce

Robert Fernandez

I remember
I was
messing
around
on Zillow

and saw
one of your
paintings
on the wall
of a brownstone

near Washington
Square Park
and thought
fuck I have
not done

that yet
who did
that how
do I do
something

that looks
good on
the wall
of a brown-
stone?

which
sounds
shitty (ha
ha) but
really who

can account
for how
the seeds
of ambition
are planted?

anyway
I’d like
to think
it was a
combination

of your
living work
so fucking
cool and
just exactly

what it
is plus
the money
that made
me jealous

jealous
isn’t the word
itself a tiny
palace
of flames?