Art: AI Epiphany by Alex Duensing

A VISION

What then is life?” I cried—

—P. B. Shelley

The Triumph of Life (broken off final line)

 A cross. A mirror. Not much else—silver gray

light. Half a face—mine, stranded under bulbs

too bright for this room. The cross is a threat,

a clue. Flashing. It won’t be solved

by eyes that will be closed after the play.


Mark J. Mitchell’s latest novel, The Magic War just appeared from Loose Leaves Publishing .A Full length collection of poems will released next year by Encircle Publications. He studied writing at UC Santa Cruz under Raymond Carver and George Hitchcock. His work has appeared in the several anthologies and hundreds of periodicals. Three of his chapbooks— Three Visitors, Lent, 1999, and Artifacts and Relics—and the novel, Knight Prisoner are available through Amazon and Barnes and Noble. He lives with his wife the activist and documentarian, Joan Juster and makes a living pointing out pretty things in San Francisco.

A meager online presence can be found at https://www.facebook.com/MarkJMitchellwriter/

Art: AI Epiphany by Alex Duensing
In the artist’s words:
According to the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Physics, the version of Alex Duensing that you meet may have successfully utilized a combination of politics, theater, and poetry to create anti-time, bodily free-energy, and a Gordian Knot-Type solution to all Zen koans. You may also encounter him as pure money or as a recent thought.