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••• The Mad Gallery ••• “Uprooted Bench” (above) by featured artist Aniruddha Sastikar. To view more of Aniruddha’s works, along with our other featured artists, visit our chockfull Mad Gallery at MadSwirl.com! “You are the music while the music lasts.” ~ T. S. Eliot ••• The Poetry Forum ••• This last week in Mad Swirl’s Poetry Forum… we emoted anger o’er …

••• The Mad Gallery ••• “Broken Yet Standing” (above) by featured artist Aniruddha Sastikar. To view more of Aniruddha’s works, along with our other featured artists, visit our chockfull Mad Gallery at MadSwirl.com! “Words are but pictures of our thoughts.” ~ John Dryden ••• The Poetry Forum ••• This last week in Mad Swirl’s Poetry Forum… we tallied two times seventeen; …

“Does it mean this, does it mean that, that’s all anybody wants to know. I’d say what any decent poet would say if anyone dared ask him to analyze his work: if you see it, darling, then it’s there!” ~ Freddie Mercury ••• The Mad Gallery ••• “Balancing the Wind” (above) by featured artist Bill Wolak. This one closes out Bill’s …

“Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. ••• The Mad Gallery ••• “Dancing on Burning Kites” (above) by featured artist Bill Wolak. To see more Mad works from Bill, and our other contributing artists, please visit our Mad Gallery. ••• The Poetry Forum ••• This last week in …

“Art is the most beautiful of all lies.” ~ Claude Debussy ••• The Mad Gallery ••• “Carefree As the Journey of Perfume” (above) by featured artist Bill Wolak. To see more Mad works from Bill, and our other contributing artists, please visit our Mad Gallery. ••• The Poetry Forum ••• This last week in Mad Swirl’s Poetry Forum… wwe quelled the …

••• The Mad Gallery ••• “Coaxing Light Out of Nakedness” (above) by featured artist Bill Wolak. To see more Mad works from Bill, and our other contributing artists, please visit our Mad Gallery. “An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.” ~ Charles Bukowski ••• The Poetry Forum ••• …

••• The Mad Gallery ••• “Belonging” (above) by featured artist Bill Wolak. To see more Mad works from Bill, and our other contributing artists, please visit our Mad Gallery. “The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.” ~ Emil Nolde ••• The Poetry Forum ••• This …

••• The Mad Gallery ••• “The Death Mask of Friedrich Hölderlin” (above) by featured artist Bill Wolak. To see more Mad works from Bill, and our other contributing artists, please visit our Mad Gallery. “We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.” ~ Herman Melville ••• The Poetry Forum ••• This last week in …

“The Unexpected” (above) by featured artist Bill Wolak. To see more Mad works from Bill, and our other contributing artists, please visit our Mad Gallery. “The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.” ~ Thomas Eakins ••• The Mad Gallery ••• Mad Swirl is proud to introduce to you our latest visual artist, Bill Wolak. If his …

(photo of Swirve’s Chris Curiel taken by Dan “The Photog Man” Rodriguez) “You can play a shoestring if you’re sincere.” ~ John Coltrane ••• The Poetry Forum ••• This last week in Mad Swirl’s Poetry Forum… we got real (no shit, we did); we sang what we would, poorly poured if we could; we tried to pass on one who …