C. Wells

The Line Marker Practice

Bread And Butter, Bread And Butter (2012)

BREAD AND BUTTER, BREAD AND BUTTER (2012) And Edward’s back hurt. Too much the night before in Dutchtown. The new floors at Arbeiter Hall seemed fine and the program was not that taxing, but the rumbling of the seat is the enemy today. It may have been those damn...

mar, fee, tea (2004)

mar SAME BRUSH IN THE SAME HAND OF THE SAME MAN WITH THE SAME CAN. Line markers are terra tatoos. Surfaced with the certainty of a civic gavel. Ribboned by warrant, global margins in, out, to and from a city… Gaia’s constant enfaced endemic enclaves – ensigned,...

Look Left Look Right (2017)

Look Left. Look Left. If I asked you to try and create in your head the sound of the highest pitch possible and if you thought about the sound and my asking of this, you would look to the left. Your eyes would look left. And if this sound that you have never heard,...

Frôlement (2019)

In many ways, frottage seems a passe activity. Actions of the hand and its interest in rubbing and touching to produce an impression with qualities particular to, connote a feeling of memory, an ersatz or somehow the inadequacies of translating a poem. Resulting...

Bible (1999)

From the Files of the Board of Wayne County Road Commissioners,Detroit, MichiganCenter Line on Pavements This line was first used by the Wayne County Road Commission in 1911. Mr. Hines conceived of the idea on Huron River Drive while on an inspection trip of some...

nay, brr, hood (1998)

nay It is understood that a man who reads silently, mingles well in a crowd. There is an ever-present impetus held by a maker, to vehemently state what one’s work is not about. To make things clear. Nod to nod to other notions, not to smile at similes but instead, to...