Expression,
“The process of making known one’s thoughts or feelings”

From the oldest known anonymous poems—the “Epic of Gilgamesh” and Old Kingdom Egyptian “Song of the Harper”—the beating heart of poetry has been its potential to imbue words with an intensity, a power to stir the imagination and emotions, to puncture a release point into the globe that confines soul. In his teens, Michael Thedieck discovered that words turn thought and feeling into something tangible that can be shared—albeit with trepidation. Manipulating words restored a sense of lost control over his life and a release from mangled and muddy visions about the journey of becoming one’s own man. Oxpecker’s working title had been My Little Black Book. To Oxpecker’s adult, dark-to-light fare, Thedieck adds not a pinch but a handful of whimsy. His debut work is a charcuterie board that whets our appetite for more.

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