Daniel Haskin

Picture Book Daniel Haskin

Daniel Haskin's fourth book of poems, Picture Book, is a work of life, death, and dreams. It is both darkness and spacious light, surreal and the abstract world. An Example . . . Self-Portrait with Rothko(A meditation on the painting "Orange and Yellow, 1956") My eyes are illuminated yellow dusk. My body is born of irradiatedorange sung from within my ambientmistress, luminescence. I am stillness, passion, andforgetfulness is my plane of existence. My voice is your séance. It speaks toyou from my minimal mother. My body emanates loves primal mistand my mother is the arc of creationthat overwhelms me in this vibrationof consecration. She is the weakness and frailty thatbinds me two as one. Her wind thatsettles around me is a colorless breezeof auras and haunted static. Floating on a sea of projection, nature, nurture. My god is the god of purityand decadence. Two as one. Two as one.