RICK CASTRO: FETISH KING- OPENING NIGHT

RICK CASTRO: FETISH KING @ TOM OF FINLAND HOUSE
OPENING NIGHT-APRIL 6TH
BOUNCER: PETE FINLAND
BARTENDER: RON ATHEY
POETRY RECITAL: MATTHEW STEELE

FOR  5PM- WEDNESDAY TEA RESERVATIONS- $20 PER PERSON- HERE

FOR WALK-THRU TOUR- INFO

ON EXHIBIT THRU APRIL 27TH

BY APPOINTMENT

OPENING NIGHT PHOTOS- MIGUEL REYES & RICK CASTRO

brass orchids 

Initially, hatred is gashed with such restraint 

allowing only suction from mountainfat pipes

to swallow out between pulp the chase desired.

One day tho, all our hearts will shake out thrones.

What we say is a species of what we've said,

tho strains to reach low, hardened darkness 

does not shine how we expect it should.

Barely anything deep knows how to stroke the day.

Of course, you can dig inside your mind 

for your thoughts the way miners do diamonds

but what you find is riddled with wanton promise.

Better to just go downtown, get what you need.

It's funny, the places want will tend to create,

hinged or loose, tissued with the shuddering,

cooing, then the collapse. Sawdust dreams

blown away so easy and never that real wonder

lashed together under hammer and nail. Does 

a forest really hold more beauty than a garage 

or is there just more shit in the way so 

delayed are our senses' relapse to boredom?

The nightsky is garish when all the stars elate

their shinylines. Nightmares are simple:

laughing clocks and broken dogs. Scarred our

flesh by smeared chandeliers in rabid myriad.

This skin is so lost. Where once it strayed

no further than our selves, billowing now

with the sail our scars formed, so miles

could become waves and touch an ocean.

But, the bottom of the sea is a disappointment. 

Pearls are only dirt, so are all our coral reefs. 

Forgive your worst joke and your very best bruise. 

Gasp bright with all this hour we've found-

Matthew Steele- written for RICK CASTRO: FETISH KING OPENING

RICK CASTRO: FETISH KING @ TOM OF FINLAND HOUSE

FOR WEDNESDAY TEA RESERVATIONS- $20 PER PERSON- HERE

FOR WALK-THRU TOUR- INFO

ON EXHIBIT THRU APRIL 27TH

BY APPOINTMENT

OPENING NIGHT PHOTOS- MIGUEL REYES & RICK CASTRO