When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

-- William Butler Yeats

by Jeannette Harris

Birds and Bees

Child's Play

Fire and Ice

Ghost

Guitar

In The Garden

India Melt

Late

Liberty

Life

Life2

Love Song

Memories

Mobile 2

Mobile 3

Mobile 6

Native Scream

Ocean Fantasy

Order

Pink Bird of Happiness

Rain

Rain Forest

Silence of the Lambs

Star of David

Truffles

Unnamed

Wall Board

Wall Hanging 1

Wall Hanging 2

Take me with you to distant ports.
I want to know Thailand in a setting sun,
the Gulf of Tonkin as our boats drift in,
Hong Kong's garish clang and alluring lights
on singular back alley nights.
Tell me how their voices sound
whispering in a room,
what clothes they wear,
how they walk,
their pose against a stair.
Do they glisten at midday
swimming toward a barge?
Write me of their perfume,
the colors of their leis.
Have you seen the porpoises?
Is the sea at peace?
Your letter's nearly two week's old,
stamped somewhere in Greece.
(1996)

What Sex Brings To The Race

The creative force underlies the attractions and comradeships between boys and girls, as well as courtship, love, marriage and family life.

It makes manliness, womanliness, motherhood and fatherhood.

To both boys and girls, sex gives a new joy in living, a desire for a career, a longing to do great things for the race.

It inspires the arts, the sciences, and the culture of civilization.

-- The American Social Hygiene Association, 1922, quoted from Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America, by John D. Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman

"... the self which the sexual shatters provides the basis on which sexuality is associated with power. It is possible to think of the sexual as, precisely, moving between a hyperbolic sense of self and a loss of all consciousness of self." -- Reenfleshing the Bright Boys by Calvin Thomas, in Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory edited by Judith Kegan Gardiner

The Garden of Good and Evil
("The Nail Under Your Sandal's Strap")

and your body is a place,
a planet I explore,
crawling up its mountains,
tripping on its dreams,
falling through its hollows,
standing in its terror,
swallowing its screams.
on my knees with frightened cries
I reach to find the pain
and heal it with my magic gel,
salt, the kiss-caress of tears.

with my teeth I pull the nails,
lick your wounds until they're healed.

your blood flows through me.
(1997)

"I want to impart something to you through osmosis, the sweating of the pores in my skin. It's knowledge, power, being, learning, growing, expressing yourself and divinity, communion with nature, all that's natural, your higher self."
-- Reign in My Name