Medusa tattoo I designed for Magdelina Alagna on Magdelina Alagna. 

 
Medusa tattoo I designed for Magdelina Alagna on paper. 

 
Not a dead mouse but you get the idea. 

ODE TO A DEAD MOUSE JAMMED IN THE CEILING FAN

I never thought I’d be so
absolutely gleeful to have a
dead mouse plop down from
my ceiling – but now my new
bathroom won’t bask in that
stench that I thought for
three days was
the pipes.

-Ryn Gargulinski, Aug. 2006

 
Me and Sawyer not by the Chetco River. 

CHETCO RIVER POEM

for Ty

we kinda sorta went to the
chetco river cos it’s all about
the effort and not
the outcome we
drove up the
southbank with
nothing but signs that
said Don’t Hunt Don’t
Dare You Stop Here – we
braked by a man with a
face like putty that dangled
at an angle a half-chewed
cigar not a yard, just a ranch, he said I
called a steer a cow and thought
gosh durn, he’ll think that
I’m stupid.

-Ryn Gargulinski, Aug. 2006

 
Cowed Sawyer. 

 
Majestic Sawyer. 

  

View with a view. 

 
Me and soy boy. 

 
Wanda needs a home. 

OLD RED FARMHOUSE

I will not chase
the spirits out of my
new haunted house built
1909 where they’ve lived
for a century – I tell them
to stay, I imbibe them
with rice ask they
maybe could
help pick up
my socks – but as I
scrubbed and I
rubbed and I
dusted, I made
many a spider
so
homeless.

-Ryn Gargulinski, Aug. 2006

 
Haunted attic room haunted bed before. 

 
Haunted attic room haunted bed after. 

 
Haunted attic room cabinet things before. 

 
Haunted attic room cabinet things after. 

 
Haunted attic room window before. 

 
Haunted attic room window after. 

 
Sawyer in the sea. 

 
New dog Sawyer. 

 
Sawyer says. 

 
Come one and come all to the 2006 Del Norte County Fair. 

 
Folks having great fun at the DNC fair. 

 
To burl is to log roll at the DNC fair. 

 
Ax throw at the DNC fair. 

 
Power tool competition at the DNC fair. 

 
Lumberjack and Jill doubles at the DNC fair.