Umbra Penumbra

figurines of ghosts, naevus on swollen

areolae; two black suns;

two narrow-eyed visages

--selfsame on two hardened frames;

a dulled glisten


sometimes we are peerless before the glass

shimmer in murky opal


sometimes we erase landscapes from our eyes,

are thus enlightened



before blackened carcasses of trees

--or the deep sea held against

a skeletal reef--


sometimes things seem very dark*



*title of Mark Lamoureux chapbook. Dusie, 2007

Three Months After Departure

In our dreams may our paths collide, and our fluids congeal.

New Publications/ Forthcoming

Cerulean Rain
(with Jeff Crouch)

Forthcoming:



Issue 43 of Xerolage, which is a whole issue dedicated
to my Papyrus-Graffiti images.

Here is a mini blurb by Kane X. Faucher:

Matina Stamatakis has "arrived" even if the rest of the world has been too slow to realize it. Her newest "art/non" textscape is a veritable plum pudding of ruthless extravagance, a cryptological scherzo written in "sanscript", so to speak. Teasing out texture from text, this most recent offering from the Xerolage series has a haunting aspect that unites papyri and the phantom after-effects of words in constant stochastic exile. In essence, Stamatakis "writes" perpetually double, the reflection upon a surface of "lin/geist" that judders with an ekphrastic motion of the cinematic or photographic double-take.

Also forthcoming:

Wheelhouse Magazine (artwork)
Big Bridge (poetry)
Drunken Boat (artwork)
The New Post-Literate (artwork)

Metempsychose (Ypolita Press)

A Via Rosa

w/ Douglas Just

la vie en rose

laconic haze
a cusp of thoughts
succor to one's heart

wrapped in chimerical glaze
the slow-sifted haze
of repose; a wilted flower

enshrouded by dust

Disembowelment

Text from The ChongDong Misfits

Over at Linh Dinh's The Lower Half