Self-conscious, self-referential, the poems in "Disfigurements" explore forms and shapes, the forms of words, figures of speech, in the Late Latin sense of "figures" being a sketch or drawing of the things they attain to artfully, through the art and artifice of language, to represent. Disfigurements are poems that reveal how time disfigures us all: our faces, memories, bodies, houses, cars, loved ones, pets, art, music, our entire world, how even the mind disfigures what it sees, often, even soon after seeing something. And, at a more meta-level of thinking, Disfigurements explores the aesthetics of how one figure of speech disfigures another, and so, as sunlight melts wax, time disfigures all, for there is no escaping the ravages of entropy. We are living inside a black hole.