The 2nd of my low-lights series for 2026, a series of paintings designed with metallics for low-light viewing. Pretty neat! Compare colors from shaded room, to a 'night-light' hallway, to a golden hour mix of the two. "Tulip in Windowsill" 2026. Rob yates 2026 #acrylic #painting #Kansas #tulip

Blood Moon #painting #eclipse #acrylic

It’s getting closer to holiday sales and shopping. Instead of spending money at a big box store or putting money in a billionaires pocket… shop small!! If you have a small business or are a small time creator (that means artists and indie authors too!) share your links/work below.

The incredible Squirrel Nut Zippers. Killer show. #jazz #squirrelnutzippers

New York, New York - October 2025. Poetry in motion. #NY #newyork #nyny #poetry #photography

Gorgeous day to be headed in for lecture. "Campus Visitor" #photography #art #monarch #nature #butterfly

During the Satanic panic of the 80s, Ozzy was the sensible, safer alternative to bathshit crazy evangelical parenting. Anti-war, critical of capitalism, and a dad that showed up. #Ozzy was a #deconstruction icon. The "Prince of Darkness" was more christ-like than any mega church preacher.

Trying to get up and running over on Instagram and would appreciate a follow if you have the time. "Haunted" from #sonofgod is posted in full over there now. #kansaspoet #poetry #poet

One of the coolest people I've gotten to briefly meet. #thedoctor #Davidtenant #doctorwho I got a #jessicajones themed signing though. All around nice dude. #sometimesmeetyourheroes

"Why don't Presidents fight the war? Why do the always send the poor?" System of a Down. For no reason on a #saturdaynight

World on fire, but hey, man, daughters bought me scratchers, and I have won a dollar and a chance at a thousand tomorrow. Here's to tomorrow. #daughters #fathersday

Explosion of #Spring blooms. Original #photography from a #kansas garden.

"Poetry is chain smoking" from "Son of God," 2024 Spartan Press, Kansas City. "Menthol flavored madness cooling the tongue..." #kansascity #writing #poetry

#spring #inbloom #photography. Damn beautiful weekend so far.

Some pre-work #photography on a new acrylic #art piece for the spring. My Cherry Blossom was looking gorgeous this evening.

Being dad to the coolest. #kansaswedding #dad

Good 'ol #KC at The Savoy last week. Missing spring break already #kansascity

This one was just for fun (and a birthday present) - "Mid-century Sunset" #painting #acrylic #art

What would #Hellboy do? #fuckfascists

Normalize pronouncing DOGE as DOUCHE.

"We're going to find out what happened and do what it takes to make sure it never happens again. Our hearts go out to the victims and their families for this tragic loss," was all that needed to be said about Flight 587. THAT is Presidential. But no, here comes some old turd blaming black people.

If it exists you can refine it — but it must exist first. Make the sketch. Combine the ingredients. Try the routine. Be not deterred. You can make it perfect faster with the experience gained.

Mixing up some landscape with sharp abstract tones and shapes. "Storm's Comin'." Featuring contributions from the kiddo sitting on my lap yesterday afternoon. #painting #kansasart #artists #acrylic

An older #abstract from when I first started. A Reflections off a #Chicago skyline, named "untitled effort." Related #poem "untitled effort," beside. A day that signaled the death of a relationship, but was the birthplace of art. Poem from #sonofgod #poetry #writersky #trauma

Commit the sin of empathy.

THE meme of 2025 for me.

Those looking for topical fiction during these funky times should check out After the Revolution by @iwriteok.bsky.social. Also, play Cyberpunk 2077. It'll be good tears and good therapy. Dystopian fiction was supposed to be a warning, not a mirror. Here we are.

now’s the time to start buying the physical copies of your favorite books, #booksky – they can take your kindle/digital copies away at any time

Kansas is more "frozen hell" than rolling summer prairie currently, but I like the way this piece of mine from last summer shows how types of light affects color. #Kansas #painting #art

“Thanks, man. Where was I? Oh yeah, so it was December, and I just wanted to get out of the cold. I knocked on some random guy's door. I’m tellin’ ya, dude was out of his friggin' mind! He kept asking me a bunch of super weird questions and whining about some chick named Lenore."

Son of God out at Spartan Press "These poems are new generation prayers and meditations that expose truths with humor and hard-fought wisdom in a collection that will resonate with many." -Kevin Ridgeway, author "Too Young to Know, "Invasion of the Shadow People." #poetry #deconstruction #writing

Man, #duneprophecy sure landed an incredible season. Worth checking out even if you aren't a Dune fan/familiar. A good fit for the hole left by Agatha All Along. Much darker, but full of witchy sisterhood and regular doses of backstabbing. #dune

Wishing everyone a pleasant #yule as the last of the week burns out. Stay safe and warm everyone! The highways are already spicy.

Texture work in paint and print. Penciled from #sonofgod #poetry

Have you ever Walked backwards through a mirror Into a space between thoughts? Where everything is nothing No light or darkness one of the realms One of the states Where nothing is measured Not even time #poetry #poet #poem

Seasonal work

CHRISTmass #poetry #kansaswrites #immigrants #christmass

Recent painting to get shit all festive. The color work was fun. That many bricks were not.

Holiday break has set in well enough to start making the move over to bluesky after abandoning X. Here's a piece I had in @rejectionlit.bsky.social last year.