Scars & Empty Vases by Kevin Heaton

Van Gogh’s mad ear enflamed a field of purple irises—marring the face of a sleeping homeless man. Artists render people like pastels & watercolors. The wounded gather shopping carts & talk about Jesus, their smiles resemble burn scars. They tape

Schizophrenia Night by Michael Lee Johnson

(Devoted to John Nash, A Beautiful Mind Movie, 2001) I am a chalkboard computer brain. I have updated drawn raw images even the classroom students cannot see, hear, nor understand. They sit quietly in Disneyland wondering about my eccentricities I