Lisa Teasley is a Los Angeles native, artist and writer. Her solo retrospective show was at the Marie Baldwin Gallery, Spring 2019 and her first solo exhibition was at the Watts Towers Art Center curated by John Outterbridge.

How long / you were afraid to become your father. How many times / I’ve said before that that’s who you’ve become— / I was wrong. Both of you are more than inheritance / inflicted.

We call this the ordeal blues / Now crawl to the piano seat and make a blanket for your cell / Paint scenes of a child dancing up to the court appearance / And leaving a man, / but not for home