Provocative Soul: My First Book of Pictures 4.18x6.88 inches, 37 pages, no ISBN, wirebound, $5.00 These photographs were taken en route I-40. I traveled in my 1982 Honda Prelude from Los Angeles, CA, to Philadelphia, PA in one week. I recorded my travels with images taken in cheap motel rooms, gas station bathrooms, the Canyon, and the car. Introduction Across my country and across my mind Are places I neither frequent nor try to find Earth, you are a maze of streets, houses, and people While inside me: a knife, bible, cross, steeple All goodness and badness are laid out as a map That is torn, crinkled and misused in my lap A woman on the run, a woman meek but dangerous Innocent but stained, placid but adventurous Come country for my pictures, come and enjoy my world This delightful being has traversed, this energy, this girl Oh family need not question and lover mustn’t quarrel The art I share is all I know of daisy, tree and laurel— It is a globe of beauty and for this I live, Original gifts of the soul I give.