Monday, April 29, 2019

Dear Morning by Marion

I grew this magnificent being...

Squash blossom

Past year’s flags & new year’s.  Let your freak flags fly!!!!



Dear Morning:
By Marion

I wake with these lyrics
going round and round my head:

"And the days go by
like a strand in the wind
in the web that is my own
I begin again..."  ~Stevie Nicks, 'Edge of Seventeen'

I put the coffee on, then
head out the back sliding
glass doors to the patio.

The morning dew glistens on the 
freshly cut grass and
dragonflies dip and sip
like flying jewels,
wings sparkling
in the new day's sun.

I am present for this moment.
I'm alive and I see.
What more is there?

I water the garden.
The Bush Beans are
leaning, reaching
toward the rising sun.
The Squash blossoms 
vibrate with yellow-ness.
The Tomato leaves 
generously release
their unique fragrance---

The Catalpa tree
drops a blossom at
my dew-covered bare feet.
I look up...there are no blossoms
anywhere on the old tree.
A gift, this little Orchid-like
flower.  Thank you, tree.

Birdsong surrounds me,
a chorus of life and joy.

Thank you, Morning,
for your generous gifts.




Sunday, April 28, 2019

April Fades into Nothingness...

Hello, Death!

Be kind.  We are all fighting a hard, losing battle.

Khloé Kale & Moon modeling clown outfits.  Moon is pissed off. :)




Friday, April 19, 2019

Dear Old by Marion


My treasures on my kitchen altar.  I love the fish bone I found on a beach in Galveston shaped like Jesus on the cross.



Dear Old:

I fucking HATE you.

The pain, the dry everything
that once was not,
the gravity, the falling,
the feigning, the lack of,
the emptiness, the clicking
& clacking of my bones,
the no-fucking-hormones,
the ugliness of bare,
the loss, the LOSS, THE LOSS,
the fat, the jowls, the bags,
the feeling like a hag,
the stench of death
where once was life,
the strife,
the longing for an ending,
the end of beginnings,
the day's glued to days,
the pain, the pain, the endless PAIN!
the regret, THE REGRET(!)
the no money, no vacation,
the stagnation,
the _______.


11/4/16

Saturday, April 6, 2019

Write a Book a Year by Deborah Digges

Ten years ago Deborah Digges took her life, jumping off the top of a stadium.  I like to think she flew.  Being a poet is a painful occupation—-we feel too much.  
Happy Poetry Month (which is all year at my house).

Write a Book a Year by Deborah Digges
Well the wild ride into the earth was thrilling,
really, scared as I was and torn and sore.
I say what other woman could have managed it?
My life before then
picking flowers against my destiny
what glance, what meeting,
who was watching, what we don’t know we know,
the hour we chose and we are chosen.
And suddenly the dead my mission,
the dark my mission.
He’d find me pounding out the hours.

Spring is for women, spring clawing at our hearts.
We are pulled forward by our hair
to be anointed in the barren garden.

I want the dark back, the bloody well of it,
my face before the fire,
or lie alone on the cold stone and find a way
to sleep awhile, wake clear and wander.
From:  “The Wind Blows Through the Doors of my Heart”





Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Seizure by Marion




Seizure
By Marion

FLASH!!! 
Lights, lights, lights,
Bright, bright, bright, bright!
FIREWORKS!  BOMBS!!!!!!
     Knocked me off the bed——-
Shocks!  Volts of electrified light
EXPLODING in my head, my head,
MY HEAD IS ON FIRE!!!!!!!!  
Sleep has tossed me into
Hell’s blazing flames!
Am I dying?
(Brain storm)?

CLANG, CLANG, CLANG
CLANG, CLANG, CLANG, CLANGING!!!!!!!!!
CACOPHONY OF SYMBOLS CRASHING!
Can’t move, can’t scream...

Suddenly, abruptly, it’s over.
Only echoes & spasms
jerking my shocked psyche
and body...
I wake, stunned, broken
and
shattered.

3/29/19





Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Spring - Godlight









Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. ~Rilke