Pondering the Yamahira exhibit deconstruction is an art form
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Obverse Pairs
Posted in Art, Relationships on April 14, 2018 | Leave a Comment »
Encaustic
Posted in Art, Love on February 10, 2018 | Leave a Comment »
[after viewing encaustic paintings of Stephanie Hargrave, Shift Gallery, Seattle, 2/10/2018] Black graphite dust skitters across the small beige panel molten wax layers built up in relief.
Recurrence
Posted in Dreams, Love, Poetry on January 22, 2018 | Leave a Comment »
My mother dreams of walking the mausoleum’s corridor searching for her name among the eye-level inscription plates petite crypts holding entombed breasts. It’s been more than 30 years since the era of battling early stage breast cancer with radical mastectomy – without reconstruction. Still she dreams of being reunited, made whole.
Making Way for the Poem
Posted in Anger, Poetry, Protest, Women, Writing on January 14, 2018 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been waiting for anger to subside or at least squidgy a little to the left or, if not that, slide a bit lower or melt, maybe, from my furrowed brow and clenched jaw or warm the nippy fluids buffering my heart by just half a degree or soften just the tiniest bit the hardened […]
Genealogy of a Ghost
Posted in Bible Story, Legends and Mythology, Poetry, Relationships, Writing on August 27, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
I married the man from an unbroken line of cattle rustlers and outlaws misogynists and God-fearers hard drinkers and card players good-ole boys and long-suffering wives descendants of those with skin white enough to hold slaves own vast farmland distill spirits to make it through North Dakota winters and high plains droughts.