Kale! the new Kleenex!

Yesterday I spent the afternoon with a beautiful ball of light and joy and superfood wizardry....  enlightenment struck as a friend, naturally-- needing to clear the phlegm-- blew his nose into a big supple leaf of dinosaur kale... yes! God!

being a woman:

i love you
i love you
i love you
now i love yam


(inspired by Gary Snyder, always-- thank you!)

Oh, Anais!

the beauty is...

when my hope to 

surrender

climbs through

my flesh, 

 and i see my neck snapped

in half and 

a throat  silenced

my breasts loved and

willow leaves

binding my wrists --

I walk into the garden

shovel compost and 

weed. and weed. 

and like magic

all is fertile

and whole

opening: 
a change of mind is 
a change of heart is 
breath.

desire!

Yes! A bra is ironic!

awoke to a lynching

...

soft articulations:

these textures

curl up

to  the hour

like lovers

like bodies

within bodies--

my skeleton 

softening

my sinew

slips unto the floor:

throat to thighs

thighs to ears

like curving

I am

here

to be folded

into the floor

unto the floor

softening:

one long rope

Keith Puccinelli

Forbidden (Photo) Segment from Puccinelli's Mural in the Atkinson Gallery.....


"Puccinelity" Received!
Local artist Keith Puccinelli's exhibit in the Atkinson Gallery is a scrumptious offering of  baroque aesthetics, beeswax-inspired somatics, humor,  and death! I loved the gamut of  common materials (wax, twigs, ink, cotton) used--and with  such an intimate ( and friendly) sense of irony.... thank you!

"Car Bomb"

"Just Another Hunk of Prosciutto # 2"

...schlepping and feeling creative about the yard...

Holiday gift to self: Withholding Judgment of Desire...
furthermore- Radha Mitchell (!)

Episode I