CHAOS APPEARS IN NATURE WHEN THERE IS A SYSTEMIC INSTABILITY IN A SYSTEM SUCH THAT CHANGES 2 THE WAY THE SYSTEM EVOLVES OVER TIME 2 RESEMBLE THE MORALITY OF COMPLETE RUIN

Sometimes you can build a set to juxtapose against the background of the background almost as an aside until you realize that the aside is the photograph. My back yard by the kiddie swings.

Tim Barrus Response NYT Ross Douthat

I am a communist. Capitalism is confused. These ideas will be too radical for Gatekeepers. Because the ideas are the truth. Gatekeepers will never see Appalachia for what it is. A place apart. Not the candy cane Instagram Place Apart. But a Harder Truth. Executions in WV were all hanging…

light fell for a moment and the windows were filled with roman candles/

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Tim Barrus Photography

delerium

desire. have u drawn a circle around it. this will take months to fix.

inhabits our frail blood

Then, saved in the constant image of the creaure, shaking off I Would Have Died An Hour ago, but that is not what happened says who says I because I was there, and I say so. Fate itself has become obedient to his mother’s womb. The shortened tedious nights the…

CHILDREN’S PLASTIC TOY CAMERAS

I have been shooting film with a child’s plastic toy camera. I have to get away from all the This Is What People Want rhetoric. The perfect photograph does not exist. Perfect photographs do not possess a story. Often, the photograph is the story. I get on my dirt bike…

In the long Run, the Desert Will Win

Tim Barrus, New York Times I am a communist. I get graphs. Since I am poor, and live on $200.00 a month (I am writing this on a borrowed phone in a borrowed tent in pouring rain), I get the hatred. Of the poor. The rich have nothing to fear.…

All My Lovers Sleep in Shrouds

All of this is up for grabs. This is not the world I live in. It is the world I live with. I would like to say side by side. But it would just be another lie. Disengenuous. You would find the place I am in at the moment as…

Dirt Bike Town

Where the fuck is Dirt Bike Town. They’re dangerous and snug in their spooncase frown. Unbind his tongue of purple blush. Dirt Bike Town is lost in dust…

they say your entire life flashes

this

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Tim Barrus Photography

Blond Photographer

shoplifting

you could take it into public      on the night of a mission saving the world was like      shoplifting with stuff shoved down our pants next to our      balls they could search us but they knew we would      blackmail them and blackmailing adults who      wanted to touch us we dared them…

Going Rogue

A great sadness descended from the irony of midnight’s abyss not unlike red dust storms made you dream of rivers and the solitude of rivers and the river’s edge of sound and wounds and fatal roads and going away.

BOLIVIA

Dirt Bikes. La Paz.

StrangleHigh

in those last moments, hands quickened around your neck, running dry, you who begged him/ to turn it all off, veiled, his eyes a salt-rinsed brown, you, giving way to the yellow skies of blackness, he’s doing what you asked for, now, you need to let this lost dog go/ 

You Are Over Your Head

your hair and shampoo and open the windows you have been thinking again and let me lick the lemon from your hands we will drink gin tonight and laugh at all the wounds we ever had and wonder how it is we dream of one of us is the other…

WHAT DOES THE PHOTOGRAPHER OWE THE DEAD

I have been taking photographs for sixty years. It’s a blur. During that time, some of the people I have taken pictures of have died. Car crashes. Suicide. AIDS. Cancer. Covid. Cardiac arrest. The list goes on. Some of the photographs of these people were taken while they were children.…

We Should Love Love Love Every Cop In Fucking America

Just to prove to the cops that we love them love them love them we should line up all our childrem and turn our children around to face the wall so the cops could shoot them in the back and kill them and handcuff their corpses to cop cars so…

Prepare For Blood In The Streets

I would never ever ever never never never even suggest that America is facing civil war. I would never ever ever ever never never in any way share or form advocate for such a bad bad bad bad naughty thing. I want peace and love and piece and love and…

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pushing inside you

i would push you up against the tree/ you asked me to please push you up against the tree/ especially in the sodden rain/ you were like a watermark/ all the delicate debris of life/ the smell of your shit and sweat/ the weather never really mattered/ your insides were…