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The Boat.Charcoal on Paper. 70 cm x 50 cm (approx). SOLD

Isolation is the gift; all the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And you’ll do it despite rejection and the worst odds and it will be better than anything you can imagine. If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods and the nights will flame with fire."

~ Roll the Dice by Charles Bukowski 

That Old Bungalow

Whenever I walk through North Road, I stop by these gates

And I peer inside

 Trying to see as much as I can

 Through the dense foliage

 Ferocious growth

 And tangled vines

 I glimpse a dark window here

 An old fountain there.

 But the merciless verdure pushes me back

 And I retreat

 Turning back for one last look

And another

Before going my way.