Jason Hancock

Jason Hancock is primarily a visual artist. (See his OPP Artist's page Here.)

He says about his art: "My art is my solace, therapy, and love that makes me feel whole when life itself can be so fractured. As these characteristics come together my hope is sharing something sublime."

► Jason's Origami micro-chap & selected poems are available below.

Origami Microchap

Selected Poem(s)

Poetry Lines

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Cover Art by Jason Hancock

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November 7th, 2013 6 a.m.

small birds/autumn leaves.
landed/fallen.
peck bits/last bit; color.
noise scatter/breeze shake.
stay winter?/return spring?

December 9th, 2013 3:21 p.m.

not a breeze.
in winter, wind?
snow fall-curly q’s down.
resting even before landed.
rested even before fall.
so quiet.

December 30th, 2013 4:22 p.m.

where.
whence.
ether.
alone?
compounded: glimpse to thought -
thought out idea.
continuous...

January 4th 2014 6:35 p.m.}

struggle: on & on.
others?
often.
alone?
easily increase.
then an other eases pain.
a touch.
not always/ often enough.

January 5th, 2014 3:45 p.m.

thoughts: fast-slows.
too slow?
quieted.
subtlety breathed.
subtle breath where:
thinking stills to remarkable.

January 10th, 2014 6:38 p.m.

what to do?
headed where?
who’s this this?
within wherefore exactly?
who’s asking?
some paid by policy, some not.

January 19th, 2014 5:41 p.m.

candles, buddhas, incense, skulls.
an origami lily.
flicker: faces, faces, folds.
heady air.
question/contemplate.
don’t ask.

February 5th, 2014 4:07 p.m.

so long numb: survive.
recovery grieving.
pain(life) under another pain;
didn’t allow full scope.
but, I’m bawling now.

February 8th, 2014 1:40 p.m.

9 candles.
white to clear flames, white light.
close eyes-white upon lids, upon face.
a clear light for clarity.

February 11th, 2014 3:00 p.m.

Charles Mingus: record album onto ipod,
blast on pod’s speakers only:
sounds of my grampa’s big bands
a.m. transistor.

February 13th, 2014 10:54 a.m.

chores done-down to work.
creation: impending necessity.
flow on whatever/whatnot.
decipher, amend-addendum.

February 28th, 2014 2:17 p.m.

easier if: from nowhere, magic, a one point.
except…seasons: not begun/ not ending/
ever-abiding.
seamless: cycle into one another.
dependent.
finite equates aggression.

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