Is it true that you stood up

Completely nude

In front of an audience

And read your latest poem

Experiments in the Abyss

To great acclaim


That is very true Richard

It was also filmed

By the White Sands Collective

And can easily be found online


I do have something of a connection

With you as my mother Petal Flower

Was the naked girl at the Washington Happening

Who was famously featured in Life Magazine



Interview Jane Claw & Richard Pipe

January 31st 2026