Boys' Night Out (1962)

From The Terrace (1960)

The Maze (1953)

The Trap (1959)

Senso (1954)

Laura (1944)

Mata Au Hi Made (1950)

drawings extracted from notebook 5 - they depart with a kiss (1999/2008)

in the direction of

kuchizuke ( kisses) as toba khedoori

crowd tethers to exit t-shirt direction

airport detergent

“wife flirts” cleavage

“she doesn’t say anything”

Dime with a Halo (1963)

Destination Moon (1950)

Finger Man (1955)

One Hour with You (1932)

Lloyds of London (1936)

In a Lonely Place (1950)

Denise Liddell Lawson: Where You Form The Letter L

page 49: four people in a plot for two

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Taylor Brady: Yesterday’s News

page 18: Do people set their fires to fit the lack of smoke?

page 208: four fields underneath one house

Rififi (1954)

45s


The Bunnys: Let’s Go Shake (1967)

The Carnabeats: Sukisa Sukisa Sukisa (1967)

Yuzo Kayama: Kimi to Itsumademo Yozora no Hoshi (1966)

The Tempters: Junai (1968)

The Tigers: Seaside Bound (1967)

The Tigers: Romance in the Milky Way (1968)

The Wild Ones: Omoide no Nagisa (1966)

Jackey Yoshikawa & The Blue Comets: My Lonely First Love (1966)

The Golden Cups: Hiwa Mata Noburu (1967)

The Golden Cups: Jezebel (1967)

The Spiders: Furi Furi (1966)

The Spiders: No No Boy (1966)

Ride a Crooked Trail (1958)

suppose pavement puddles late afternoon

suppose waitress folds chair in half

suppose the kitchen floor is a promise she can’t explain

suppose vase with vertical notches

suppose you can see the bones in her eyes

Buck Rogers Disintegrator (Marx 1930s)

Cosmic Ray Gun (Ranger Steel Products Corp 1950s)

Atom Ray Gun (Hiller 1948)

Lady in the Lake (1946)

Action of Sterno-mastoid

Late Spring: Collaboration with Yuan Chen (779-831)


evening swallows keep twittering by the curtain

thought muddles in vague kisses

sparrows squabble, stir up ghost on the steps

of cleavage opening easily as mouth

hips and insects smear on tongue


evening wind closes gate

quietly flowers fall but no one comes


Yuan Chen and Ray Craig


2005

Movements of Neck

version 2

she spoke softly during her kiss, her words inaudible
in the crowded courtroom incision clarifies the wound she
made no comments to a group of reporters as she left a sentence
with its stitches removed

Earl Hines, 1929, Have you ever felt that way?

she arrived about 10 minutes before her kiss, wearing her words inaudible in a gray suit she
made no audible comments

a note from Lester - "I'll shave your door next week"

Hollows above the Collar-bone

how many lake routines in memory

how many address in Marilyn Monroe

how many geese by coil tatter slope

how many kisses in soap

how many leave tongue sitting in her address


how many inseparable dancers strewn about

how many tangerines delay in kiss

how many corridors assume value in narrow properties

how many swimsuits in dance

how many lettuce will she offer


2005

Movements of Neck

version 3

she arrived about 10 minutes before her kiss

wearing her words inaudible in a gray suit she made no audible comments



Earl Hines, 1929, Have you ever felt that way?

a note from Lester - "I'll shave your door next week"



she spoke softly during her kiss

her words inaudible in the crowded courtroom

she made no comments to a group of reporters as she left a sentence with its stitches removed

incision clarifies the wound


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version 4


45 days ago she arrived about 10 minutes before her kiss

31 days ago wearing her words inaudible in a gray suit she made no audible comments

29 days ago Earl Hines, 1929, Have you ever felt that way?

28 days ago she receives a note from Lester - "I'll shave your door next week"

12 days ago she spoke softly during her kiss

9 days ago her words inaudible in the crowded courtroom

5 days ago she made no comments to a group of reporters as she left a sentence with its stitches removed

3 days ago incision clarifies the wound

Movements of Neck

husband - “when you die what do you want me to do with your clothes?”

wife - “wear them”


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walk ten minutes from 1963 waitress

how many receipts in $400?


2006

36 Ghost by Horiyoshi III