size: 3.5ft x 2.5ft material: acrylic & canvas

Poem

Written somewhere~ a child's perfect prayer scribbled in memory "tis no small affair~ not to drop the sacred spark, loose it in the air~ or flame up splintering embers into ashes everywhere~ MKE 9/20/11 Photograph: Baltimore Harbor 2015

handmade miniature art crates with paintings wood, paint, styrene, board, and polyurethane 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 x 1 1/4" 2013 Edition of 10

Photograph: Baltimore Harbor 2015

Unto~ the night she did cast a light, to see and to know a just hand in the shadow~ MKE 9/22/11 Photograph: Baltimore Harbor 2015

Tis' wide birth tanker, cutting a critical angle- through ocean forests forever untangled in ye' eternal anchor. MKE 12/ 29/2012 Photograph: Baltimore Harbor- 2015

Remember to remember, time is not the pretender~ for to whomever you owe, eternity will already know. MKE 2/10/2013 Photograph: Baltimore Harbor 2015

Photograph: Baltimore Harbor 2015

Atlas: Columbus Day~ Discovery still a ways off the charts to find America's first line~ an ancient viking rhyme mixed with Indian mud~ faces painted red as blood~ they will dance like smoke growing thin~ running through forests thick as the wind. MKE 6/23/15 Drawing: 24" x 36" - pencil/vellum

New York the day went up in smoke- four blue angels flew over the bay at noon nine eleven day year thirteen- swept the air from sea to ground ablaze the furthest maze- where only one bridge did gaze across forever ...on the day the bay- went up in smoke and blistering shadows crumbled to the pavement- to freedom's lament. Torment the fields of wheat watched from the heartland's- scratched their heads and turned in their beds while New Yorker's kiss and drink one neat on their brand new street. MKE 9/11/14 Painting: 6" x 8" copper, wire, stones, paint, wood~

size: 6" x 8" material- Mississippi River- stones, silk, nails, gold leaf~

size: 24" x 36" material: pencil on vellum

Poem

size 24" x 36" material: pencil on vellum

Poem

size: 6" x 8" materials: paint, fabric, metal, rust, wood~

size: 6" x 8" materials: paint, copper, wood~

Baltimore your pear lay open the cries of the poor whose riots surged from their own unknown doors- framed from within destined never to win-awake in the dark celebrating six stark charges. Whose weight will balance the farthest? Grey- when she breaks the deadbolt- and blue grey becomes Baltimore's finest overcoat. MKE June 10, 2015 Painting: 3ft x 4ft- materials:paint, sea glass, found metal objects on canvas.

size: 36"x6' material: brass, linen, oil paint on wood~

Poem

Size: 36' x 6' Material: oil on wood-

Poem

Size 4ft x 3ft Material: oil, rope, shoestring on canvas_

size 24" x 36" material: pencil/vellum

Silver Slipper- fell lost in the river as currents drove the sea to whisper, here bound I larkspurs thrice round my ankle~ years passed until...at last I found the match~ washed upon the shore~ scattered in pieces~ cutting sterling the brackish moor~ Painting Size: 36" x 6" Materials: paint (oil) on wood panel, metal-

Poem

Size: 2ft x 2 ft Materials: canvas & paint on wood-

Photograph: The Basilica

Sacred the hearts who see vast beyond the plank and splintered edges of time where here waited heavy hearts who longed for justice and waited again prayerfully and waited again patiently-for the rose of time to find our soldiers who served us- in military time, repeating the rhyme she'll sew long and fine their silver line-until peace- once again they shall find. MKE 11/18/2013 Photograph: Fort McHenry

And here I lay to die, my eyes fixed upon the sky- the last cloud I did see sounded forever- near a far off sea. My death was for thee- the land that leads the free. MKE 11/11/2013 Photograph: Fort McHenry

Fine is the line of the strong and sublime when no wasted movement defines far their time- since grace sets the line- to serve the silent mine, where loosing one's life in the fight to protect one's land- casts cold the gold band- on a mother's hand- lost sons and daughters- our soldiers where also fathers. MKE 11-18-2013 Photograph: Fort McHenry

A soldier steps upstairs to rest- beyond the glory he kneels and fears the real battlefield story- unfolding in mazes- resounding the places, flashbacks the mind cracks- unloading the dead tolling, he will lie down on fine linen- one more thread-count obsidian. MKE 11/7/2013 Photograph: Fort McHenry

Poem

Photograph: Fort McHenry

Bright stars see far beyond this war- embroider dreams where soldier's lay, she guards their way- through marble halls- a maze. Grace first quenches the thirst for peace, a soldier's feast. MKE 10-31-2013 Photograph: Fort McHenry

Hands in the glue- the red and the blue- our politics tried sifting through tides, binding the true- fighting for skies, the red and the blue- finding lies, white specs the lint in our shoes- buckling at the knees, our stars will shine through- the principals of freedom dyed in the blue. MKE 2-12-2012 Photograph: Fort McHenry

The debt we owe our soldiers- to know honor and serve is their trust and reserve- they number the stars and watch from afar- as America is called to carry the weight of freedom's awesome slate- irrevocably through time's precious gate. MKE 11/10/2014 Photograph: Fort McHenry

Photograph Location: Fort McHenry

Photograph: Fort McHenry

Photograph: Fort McHenry

Photograph Location: Fort McHenry

Photograph Location: Fort McHenry

Another round, another draft as thunder pounds, another clash- sea further fine border where brass is the order- as winds pick up, we pass the cup. MKE 11/11/2013 Photography: Fort McHenry

Another round- another draft as thunder pounds, another clash- another order, another border as winds pick up- we hit rock. MKE 10/31/2013 Photograph: Fort McHenry

Oh say can you see? The song I wrote on my knees- amongst blood, dust and death our flag passed the test. Beyond brave the point we did hold in morning's light bold- I wrote the star spangled- so it shall be told- your freedom is gold. MKE December 2013 Photograph- Fort McHenry Location: Fort McHenry

Holding down the fort- I am filing heaven's report- locked tight in fine gold key- above steel sword see forward through time's doors- beyond these silver moments, still silent distant shores. MKE 10/30/2013 Photography: Fort McHenry

Poem

Photograph- 8mpx 2015

poem

Assembling the computer cut parts

Poem

Photograph- 8mpx Location- Baltimore 2015

Poem

Poem

Size: 24" x 36" Materials: Pencil on Vellum

Size: 24" x 36" Materials: Pencil on Vellum

Size- 2' x3' Materials: paint, threads, nails, copper, wood

Poem For: my Dad

size: 24" x 36" material: pencil on vellum

The African Sun: South Africa do not weep for me- as silent doves fly to the sea- over sacred waters I shall still tread with thee. Begin the trace of time for me- where began our stumbles, falls, hands and final stands to be free. MKE {written the day Nelson Mandela passed & faxed to Elie Wiesel on same day} Painting: 3ft x 4ft Materials: Mixed Metals-steel, brass, copper, threads, paint-

size: 24'x36' materials: brass, aluminum, fabric, threads, paint, wood~

Israel~ MKE Painting: size: 6" x 8" material: rope, paint, gold leaf, wood~

poem

Painting~ Size: 6" x 8" Material: paint, brass, copper, wood-

Poem

Painting: Size: 6" x 8" Material: river stone, paint, fabric, wood-

Poem

Size: 6" x 8" Material: paint, linen, copper, wire, wood-

Size: 6" x 8" Materials: river stones, silk, thread, paint. nails, copper, wood-

Poem

Size: 24' x 36" Material: pencil on Vellum

Size: 24" x 36" Material: pencil on vellum

Poem

Size: 24" x 36" Material: Pencil on vellum

Poem

Size: 24" x 36" Material: pencil on vellum

Here is a painting I did of Bo when he is all grown up.

Poem

size: 6"x8" material: aluminum, paint, wood

size: 6" x 8" materials: aluminum, paint, wood, steel

size: 6" x 8" material: paint, silver leaf, stainless steel, wood~

size: 6"x8" material: lapis, stainless steel, paint, wood~

Poem: Breaking, falling, life withdrawing to a state beyond erase~ still, silent grace pours upon humility where salt keeps time with the sea's unseen, even pace~ streaming past my broken river dreams, laboring infant ground~ peace. MKE 2/26/12 Painting: size 4'x2' materials: paint, metal, goldleaf~

Poem: The pound nets grey- set dark folds in the Bay, to empty~ fishermen drag back their catch: "open thebridge," they would say, clear the way- by moonlight I saw through the mist, silver skiffs covered with fish. MKE 2/13/2013 Painting: Size: 4ft x 2ft Material: paint, linen, sea glass, lapis

Poem: Metal Mazes~ The river of stone cut to the bone- at the gate of metal mazes- here serendipity places- hold perfumed, the sea's graces. MKE 2/11/2013 Painting: Size: 4ft x 2ft Material: paint, stainless steel, sea glass, lapis, paint, linen, canvas, wood-

Poem: Be still the vane- knocked sideways for the rain-saltation's sane, rhyme the mast chimed- strung high through the night, bells lined silver and white, grey the pearl of morning's shivering light. MKE 2013 Painting: Size: 4ft x 2ft Materials: paint, linen, silk, metal, goldleaf, canvas, wood-

Poem February 6, 2013

Size:large 8ft x 5ft Materials: lapis,paint, linen, silk, sea glass, mirrors, found metal objects, stones, silver leaf-