This a Osel 6.

The Osel poems started out as three (Osel 1, 2 and 3) 'zine style chapbooks that were circulated via postal art networks. Osel 4, a collage of serial poems of an elegiac nature, was written before, during, and after Osel 5 and Osel 6.

Osel 5 was an early (1998) piece of hypertext poetry, illustrated with Tantric line drawings made by a doctor in India. A few months later, the files were deleted from my site because the drawings were considered pornographic by AOL. I canceled my AOL account shortly after this. A bad hard drive and my move from my old apartment to my house resulted in the loss of the hyperlinked Osel 5, including all the pictures. I am planning on reissuing Osel 5 in a new, non-internet form. Meanwhile, Osel 6 is now a film.

Osel 7 is a short personal poem that will be skipped for now.

Osel 8 (Retro-Osel, a light shined back) is planned as a limited art-book with individual hand-drawn collages and illustrations. I think I will make 8 copies.

At one time I was posting a working version of the pomes, Osel of My Eye, but I now think that the internet is the worse place to work on art- it's like taking a shower in public.

Enjoy Osel 6.

(Osel 1 was distributed far and wide thru mail-art networks and was inspired by my military service in the mideast)

http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/public/read/poetry/30