El colibrí de Gisela vino a la última flor de pasión en lo alto. En un lugar privado, escondido de la calle, este pequeño pedazo de desierto se ha transformado en un Edén. A veces verdeante, ahora es la temporada mortal. Las vides de uva, de árboles de limones amarillos, de nectarinas, las camas de […]
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El Colibrí de Gisela
Posted in Adam and Eve, Bible Story, Desert, Hummingbirds, Mortality on October 26, 2021 | Leave a Comment »
Still Life Smith Cove
Posted in Aging, Heron, Mortality, Pacific Northwest, Painting, Women on November 2, 2020 | 3 Comments »
Like the crone observing new life from her crooked-neck perch bones and sinews exposed as winter’s denuded branches time relaxed immeasurable and infinite the blue heron rests on the leafless limb its s-curved neck raising and turning languidly.
Silhouettes
Posted in Aging, Existential, impermanence, Mortality, Youth on June 12, 2020 | 2 Comments »
Bright light behind me only shape remains resting, hovering, suspended clouds blacken against an orange-pink glowing sunset black, too, the white-breasted hummingbird and the pink-striped hibiscus against the golden burst of a fresh-out-of-bed sunrise the curve of a jaw the connect-the-dots peaks and valleys of wind-tousled hair my own light, energy eclipsed features undefined.
Watching Saturn Rise
Posted in Existential, Guanajuato, Space/Universe, Travel on March 2, 2020 | 1 Comment »
With at least an hour before sunrise predawn roosters crow church bells chime dogs bark and I’m pretty sure that’s a mule bellowing