Friday, March 19, 2010

when the ides go marching in (thoughts and pictures of an early spring, i suppose)


The signs are large upon us, the belts, fists,
blooming night skies and we wake up
to the sun, finally, on our blinds and lids and porcelain
stretching across the mounds of a dusty duvet
'the cat hair is free' the pillow says.

my sister paints away a carnival i can never see
a distant parade mumbling sadly in the sand dunes
my earrings humming birds on my lobes,
tiny rugs of beads made by a stranger woman who sold
them in a gas station

we hear each other and never speak
blue eyes are locked and lowered down
like the world's longest hair

high in a tower
he falls to his death
his wings work,
but it doesn't matter-
nothing ever really did, in that 3 seconds
speedily,
when all was made of love and it carried him
to a mud bed face-up and beautiful,
a good friend to the firmament and all who live above
our sleepy lolly-gag



crappy photos of beautiful Torey Bonar paintings taken while in MN last week at Umber Studio.
random poem inspired by these and springtime and astrological signs.

Monday, March 1, 2010

between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.


(Mountains and spikes
crystals and corners
a table and a piece of counting tape
boats and bathtubs
letters and diamonds
a box and an ice cube
cookies and holes
a barette and a pin
a stop sign and a clock)----from a wall in a park....

Me this week, in a moment:
Listening to beautiful music,
reading a really good book
meeting new friends and
new families with really adorable and sweet children
writing new music
watching daffodils and tulips sprout up all over the city and the people
do too, riding and running and walking about in their corridors
and i am in some small way a part of it and i am in some way
very lucky and mystified and humbled because i really don't know
much else other than what is in front of me,
and, recently,
it is goodness.

( Leo, 3, and I drew on a rainysidewalk.)






(Eliza, 4, took these pictures at the park:)