Winging it as best I can, I say of the top one that it pictures "control" as (too) often inhibition, or a big grey block of "don't." The inhibition is of expression, as inhibition generally is. The (neatly-contolled) design looks like a simple machine with a lever, or expressions-control. It's tilted into some kind of action. Or is it asking one to control "don't?" So far, to me, it seems a (charged) image of a mildly flippity-floppy mood of do-or-don't.

The work beneath it seems sarcastically to comment on it. A "ewer" is a vase-shaped pitcher or jug, so a deliverer of liquid, a holder of something. But exactly what? The word also suggests, in a visual poem, "ever" and "were"--past and eternity. Are the dots an ellipse? Certainly they are an artificial intrusion into some kind of rockscape and/or sandscape. So, I experience the piece as a moodscape. Rough, bare Nature that human thought has dotted into, and begun awkwardly to name?

The point of the poems--I think--is simply to loosen the . . . aesthimbiber into readings--not necessarily the ones I've made but into ones that work for him (and which needn't be verbalized, or analyzed, to be effective--or left free of analysis to work, either).