Monday, July 31, 2006
It ain't braggin' if it's true
Thanks so very much to Austinist for naming Chatoyance their Favorite Random Blog of the Week. Made me smile! Go see them and say "howdy" when you get the chance.
Sunday, July 30, 2006
Photo Friday: Portrait
Sculpture by Charles Umlauf, re-visioned and excerpted for Photo Friday. His is a beautiful Poetess.
Birthday present
Summer-born
Flesh born under a surgeon’s knife, soul borne by gusts
from a summer thunderstorm, bruised sky roiling as self
folds down from Self like origami from sheets – of rain,
of the leaves of all books written and not yet written falling
like me into spine-stiff casing as I was bound from dream
to womb to air crackling with ether and ozone, lightning
licking a gleaming alphabet onto my bloodstreaked skin,
unbound, unbounded, unfolded, unfolding from arc to arc
under the Perseids, following their spark back home.
Flesh born under a surgeon’s knife, soul borne by gusts
from a summer thunderstorm, bruised sky roiling as self
folds down from Self like origami from sheets – of rain,
of the leaves of all books written and not yet written falling
like me into spine-stiff casing as I was bound from dream
to womb to air crackling with ether and ozone, lightning
licking a gleaming alphabet onto my bloodstreaked skin,
unbound, unbounded, unfolded, unfolding from arc to arc
under the Perseids, following their spark back home.
Saturday, July 29, 2006
Friday, July 28, 2006
Thursday, July 27, 2006
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Monday, July 24, 2006
Illustration Friday: Opposite
Although the boxes made noise when I shook them, they were ultimately empty.
(Click for a larger empty.)
Sunday, July 23, 2006
Saturday, July 22, 2006
Friday, July 21, 2006
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Thursday Challenge: Stuff
Got my Thursday Challenge in a bit early...long day, so posted while I could. Just some very interesting Stuff I saw while wandering around.
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Monday, July 17, 2006
Sunday, July 16, 2006
Illustration Friday:
Sacrifice (the illusion of self)
From the Online Etymology Dictionary:
c.1250, from O.Fr. sacrifise (12c.), from L. sacrificium, from sacrificus "performing priestly functions or sacrifices," from sacra "sacred rites" (prop. neut. pl. of sacer "sacred," see sacred) + root of facere "to do, perform" (see factitious). L. sacrificium is glossed in O.E. by ansegdniss.
Saturday, July 15, 2006
Back-country drive poem
Terse
Radiant Number 8 gravel a rougher bed
than shell roads you said, and I said yes.
Heat makes the air dance baked shimmy-shake
mirages pooling in rut-roads, flouring us with
dust the color of talc, but no mind. We’re gone
down to where there is nothing but bent grass
and dry sunflowers, all the everynothing, to
listen to the vast chirring terse once stopped.
Radiant Number 8 gravel a rougher bed
than shell roads you said, and I said yes.
Heat makes the air dance baked shimmy-shake
mirages pooling in rut-roads, flouring us with
dust the color of talc, but no mind. We’re gone
down to where there is nothing but bent grass
and dry sunflowers, all the everynothing, to
listen to the vast chirring terse once stopped.
Friday, July 14, 2006
Thursday, July 13, 2006
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Slough's edge
See the dragonfly?
I didn't, until I finished and posted.
Hint: click to enlarge, and then look again...and again.
Monday, July 10, 2006
Sunday, July 09, 2006
Saturday, July 08, 2006
Friday, July 07, 2006
Thursday, July 06, 2006
Thursday Challenge: Outdoors
Iconic sunflowers everywhere.
From A Sunflower Sutra by Allen Ginsberg:
"...A perfect beauty of a sunflower! a perfect excellent
lovely sunflower existence!..."
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Dim rainbow
Made me think of JMW Turner.
Doing a Google search, I found Turner was also a poet.
From his poem Fallacies of Hope, excerpted for his 1843 painting The Morning After the Deluge:
“…In prismatic guise
Hope’s harbinger, ephemeral as the summer fly
Which rises flits, expands and dies. …”
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Not gone yet
For all my American friends, Happy Independence Day!
And for all, happy independent thinking, creativity, and heart!
Monday, July 03, 2006
Moody Monday: Indifferent
From Sunday Morning by Wallace Stevens:
"...The sky will be much friendlier then than now,
A part of labor and a part of pain,
And next in glory to enduring love,
Not this dividing and indifferent blue. ..."
Sunday, July 02, 2006
Saturday, July 01, 2006
Illustration Friday: Sticky
She dreamt sticky, asphalt-filled dreams...
(Better larger. Please do click, but try not to stick.)
