I let down the hem of the wide-legged jeans, ripping the narrow seam thread by thread. Unfolded, the white crease revealed their age. Heat and steam made it more pronounced. I ironed it permanent instead of out, blue marker the last indelible mistake.
Archive for the ‘Emotions/Inner World’ Category
Unstitching grief
Posted in Adolescents/Teenagers, Aging, Longing on September 1, 2022 | 4 Comments »
Threshold
Posted in Nest, Renewal/rebirth, Transformation, Writing on July 4, 2022 | 4 Comments »
Some summer mornings I resist the invitation to greet the day on the page, murmur excuses within the crowded clamor – too cold, too gray, too late – then the seagull flies overhead, mouth dangling dark matter extracted from a neighbor’s gutter, to the nest I cannot see but must be close.
At least two lives
Posted in Architecture, Cerros, Guanajuato, México, Renewal/rebirth on June 22, 2022 | 1 Comment »
A building has at least two lives – the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward – and they are never the same. – Rem Koolhaas Some never knew of the secret stair, smooth, cool caracol of white cantera, winding out of sight complicit in the house built in another era […]
Déjalo ir / Letting go
Posted in Acceptance, Dance, Renewal/rebirth, Surrender, Transformation on May 25, 2022 | Leave a Comment »
Déjalo ir – Para Leona, con sus colores vibrantes en su interior. Gracias por recordármelo. ¿Cuántas veces me ha sido invitado?