Poet. Photographer. ALL IMAGES & POEMS ARE MINE UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED.Tumblr (3.0; @joewbriggs)http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/<a href="http://redboothreview.blogspot.com/">My image "Twins" is now up at the Red Booth Review.</a>http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/18919353288http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/18919353288Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:22:12 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0ap87p0G21qdy83so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/18650498469http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/18650498469Sat, 03 Mar 2012 01:12:06 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzko4xl6nr1qdy83so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>FEBRUARY FOREBODING</p>http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/17806787283http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/17806787283Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:50:55 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzbo2sR7hN1qdy83so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>FENCE</p>http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/17543991534http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/17543991534Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:11:14 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzbo1jkMc41qdy83so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>DEADWOOD</p>http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/17543975911http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/17543975911Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:10:29 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lylbqdQmAE1qdy83so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>ABANDONED HOME</p>http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/16738872655http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/16738872655Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:46:59 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxz2ruTbmk1qdy83so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>CAPITOL</p>http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/16040613216http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/16040613216Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:26:16 -0500<p>A door I knew is now deceased. Or rather, what was once a portal is now the gateway to a cellar.</p>http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/14891874827http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/14891874827Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:36:20 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwuhd626yy1qdy83so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/14845091296http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/14845091296Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:19:52 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwrne1A2731qdy83so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>TREE (NO FLASH)</p>http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/14767557697http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/14767557697Sun, 25 Dec 2011 10:37:11 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwmvfwQIHI1qdy83so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>LIGHTS</p>http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/14645983004http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/14645983004Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:43:06 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwic45npl01qdy83so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>SHELVED BOATS</p>http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/14510465472http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/14510465472Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:55:16 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwgwz6zHP11qdy83so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/14469438421http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/14469438421Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:30:42 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwgwwxEH9y1qdy83so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>FIRST SNOW IN MADISON, WI</p>http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/14469372569http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/14469372569Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:29:20 -0500<p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>The wind</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>hits me</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>a mother</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>“Go in,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>find a</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>sibling.”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Lights on</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>in homes</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>the blind</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>sit side</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>by side.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Run wild.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Hide the</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>world or</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>sell it.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Making a</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>wish or</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>bearing it.</span></p> <!--EndFragment--></p>http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/14298130045http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/14298130045Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:18:07 -0500<p>Look, I&#8217;m fine with this.  I wasn&#8217;t going to make it forever.  The zombies are relentless and my endurance has A.D.D.  I can&#8217;t even have a decent cigarette break in the damn zombie apocalypse.  The non-smokers don&#8217;t give me smug looks anymore.  They just try and devour me.  What I really want is for the zombie that eventually tracks me down to go for one of my plump thighs instead of my pulsing neck.  Please, not the neck.  Everyone I&#8217;ve seen go got it in the neck.  And, if a zombie (who didn&#8217;t ask for this monstrous non-llife mind you) happens to indulge my one request somehow I hope my flesh will taste like applewood bacon.  Smoked applewood bacon.</p>http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/14292465279http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/14292465279Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:01:00 -0500<p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>under the mask</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>there’s a gap</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>between the sweat</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>&amp; lapse of fear</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>where light is</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>welcomed in if</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>it comes as rays </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>not as a flood</span></p> <!--EndFragment--></p>http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/14275113029http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/14275113029Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:11:30 -0500<p>The crescent moon of coffee stained on the newspaper is all he reads.</p>http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/14256926111http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/14256926111Thu, 15 Dec 2011 04:06:00 -0500<p>Don&#8217;t take pictures of your food, please. If I really want to know what you&#8217;re eating I&#8217;ll dig through your garbage while you&#8217;re sleeping.</p>http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/14162028443http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/14162028443Tue, 13 Dec 2011 05:45:40 -0500<p>You assume you&#8217;ve wiped away all the sand you brought home from the beach yet it clings &amp; clings to places you forgot exist.</p>http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/13635152912http://joewbriggs.tumblr.com/post/13635152912Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:15:01 -0500