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tight-drawn and fragile
PL5 written on the wrapped-green house, half-built, half-lot, down from the street from Boston’s last working farm “Please,” utters the spirit, tight-drawn and fragile as you motor from one encounter to the next. January looms in the blue-and-white sky, chills … Continue reading
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Tagged art, boston, chills, free verse, gratitude, gratuity, january, melancholy, new england, not enough time, on being a new englander, poetry, poetry - mine, time, white sky, winter, winter in boston, wintertime in boston
Protected: Fear is the mind-killer (New Year’s reflections)
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Protected: The best reason ever to name your daughter Isabella
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Butterflies hang on the trees like fruit
Whenever I think about Santa Cruz (my homeland, even though I’ve never been a resident), I think about the monarch butterflies that migrate there in February. I think that particular tribe (nation? butterfly nation?) splits its time between South America … Continue reading
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Protected: Bioemphemera: heart and guts (fibers)
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Nothing captures the truth (first draft)
Nothing captures the truth Nothing captures the truth of the image: the luminous quality of the center of the pitcher and the glass in the morning light, that particular color of off-white/cream/not-beige-lighter-than-beige/linen the linen of the curtain draping to the … Continue reading
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Thursday art: Edwin Ushiro and a flower garden
From the Artist a Day widget on my iGoogle, Edwin Ushiro: The image above is actually a bit different from (the first image of his work that I saw) but shares the same dreamlike, flowing quality combined with realistic representation … Continue reading
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Artist of the day: Gypsy red
Via the Artist A Day widget on my iGoogle, Marty Burns: Description from AAD website: The above piece is Marty’s MFA Thesis Exhibition. It features a customized steel coffin, silicone cast, handmade costume, uncounted number of red roses, prayer cards, … Continue reading
Revised: The Wind, the Sea, the Golden Pear
The Wind, The Sea, The Golden Pear Long Island, Quincy, MA Winter Solstice 2003 He said it was a wind that blew in the glass of office-boxes. He said it was a wind he must make space for. For me, … Continue reading
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