No Evil is wide, Winner of the NYC Big Book Award and the Eric Hoffer DaVinci Eye Award. Same story, but one has pictures. This graphic shows both book covers with their respective awards. It also shows a sketch of the writer, Randall Watson, and the artist, Charles Moody.

Welcome to the website home of Randall Watson, author, poet, and teacher.

No Evil is Wide front cover. The lettering is yellow and in all caps superimposed over a painting of a black hand with an eye in the middle of it. The whole is on a bright red background with lines radiating out from the center of the space behind the hand.
The Geometry of Wishes by Randall Watson cover art shows a geometric, abstract painting in with rectangular shapes in earth tones on a powder blue background.
The Sleep Accusations by Randall Watson. Cover image shows a window opening on a bright yellow light.
Las Delaciones del Sueño, by Randall Watson. Cover image shows two cubist figures in a lovers' embrace.
The Weight of Addition, edited by Randall Watson shows a piece of abstract art in shades of gold on a turquoise background.
Watson has authored or edited five books, No Evil is Wide (Madville 2018), The Geometry of Wishes (Texas Review Press 2018), The Weight of Addition (Mutabilis 2007), The Sleep Accusations (Carnegie Mellon), and Las Delaciones del Sueño (Universidad Veracruzana)

As To The Tangerine

What opened
must have closed
around the light
it fed on.

And the light, somehow,
must have multiplied within
as the fruit, incremental, swelled
toward its own undoing.

Ripeness is like that.

It is how the world deceives us.

What I consume
is an interruption.

What I reap
is brightness,
unsevered, sweet.

by Randall Watson, author – all rights reserved