Daffodils bow their heads, shyly pour their golden silence, evade the prying lens, beckon human eyes of the very young, beetles and squirrels scurrying below, those willing to lie down on moist cold dirt to peer inside, past the attention-seeking stigma to the hushed ovary, protectively hidden, the seed-bearing life-giver we charge past, ignore until […]
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Preparing for Spring
Posted in Flowers, Seasons, Women on March 23, 2022 | 2 Comments »
Se vuelve sepia / Becoming Sepia
Posted in Aging, Women on June 4, 2021 | Leave a Comment »
La Presa Issue 10, Fall 2020 pp. 72-73 Se vuelve sepia Sobre la mesa con el mantel blanco el plato de porcelana astillado parece intencionalmente envejecido la plata empañada da un guiño a shabby chic
After de Kooning
Posted in Art, Women on April 17, 2021 | Leave a Comment »
Penumbra, Issue 31, 2021, p. 94 The rich palette of peach and yellow and white conjures feminine reverie, light and feathery in places, paint thick and heavy in others, a pool of burnt orange coagulates at the bottom of the canvas. We can trace the brush as it stroked away form, left only movement and […]
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.
Lo que dijeron los lirios / What the lilies said
Posted in Diego Rivera, Flowers, Indigenous peoples, Lilies, México, Painting, Women on May 20, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
Lo que dijeron los lirios Rivera pintó a las mujeres que reunían los lirios de alcatraces en sus brazos que se cayeron de rodillas en un campo de flores, de vegetales, de maíz mujeres que hemos visto solamente por atrás sus espaldas y caderas amplias debajo de blusas blancas y faldas negras su pelo recogido […]