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...and they lived happily ever after. Smith & Lady: poets, artists, photographers & adventurers.
Our relationship was forged to the soundtrack of Yoko Ono's magic,
frenetic, love-laden song, "Walking On Thin Ice." ( play song )
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Archive for the ‘Letters to the Universe’ Category
Thursday, December 26th, 2019
Paper cutouts, opening credits
the indie film of my childhood,
Babar on paper waves, hands in pocket,
Babar visits where the wild things are
Gray-brown sweet potato skin,
walking trees, ears buoyant
as butterfly wings alien headcases
accentuate elephant cognition;
catch the taxonomist’s imagination
Under the preponderance of labrador
bonehead browline – alarmed lady eyes
in tree knots and whirls
Old women of the sepia planet
the knees and belly of the mother goddess
unexpected grossness of that mouth lip
labia jutting over the
blue water of murmuring shadow
When tusked, beast
the dark forest of the cerebellum
loping orchestration walking mud,
painterly pointing trunk, brain
for their own traditions,
not for us! Brain
for their own things
~ Lady
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Sunday, January 13th, 2019
Yes, erumpent fireflies warmed hands
on xanthous flames fireplaced in a
viperiform damascene hagioscope
gripping the reredos
Girandoled discoball constellations
yogiboogeyboarded swimming pool lights,
dog and ponied interstices of the ceiling joists
zoopraxiscoped herds of variegated animals,
the alopecoid and hares, all manners
of dazzling English animals
The nickle nutlets of teeth in
jellygraph gloss of a dead lamb’s grin,
closed eyelids, japan painted blunt nose
nuque broke, visceral ladled nup of bent innocent colliform
draped on a chair, the Inuit their kamiks
Corpulant agriculture was fecund
on plates we left for morning after Christmas,
wastive abundance, frapped humanity
in ruddy hardihood consecrated by
the rabbi we called in;
the comrade donned a biretta
the webster sat under the vesper
it was a mixed bag, fingers bewildered in
nodated whatevers, que sera sera-ing,
the cows munched their kerf
it was ok it was the weather
The validity of vermiculture,
of worksome insects typing logopedics,
rosining translucent violins withily weaving
wirewove niello of the organized whole
~ Lady
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Friday, July 6th, 2018
A delirium of talk
from my head to my heart
tight burn hollows of shoulders
dog breath, a panicked cat
bird in the throat
bird in the ear
bird in the eyes
bird brain
Friday night
~ Lady
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Tuesday, April 10th, 2018
Sparkling Fruit
Water’s burn
quenches mineral thirst
frees yearn
Fluid husbands
two embraces
Fire leaves gas, ash
sickle’s attainment
Water
adds to the wetted mass of
suckling tree roots
Nurtured in mud,
woody lotus
tall seed dapples taut
sparkling fruit
~ Lady
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Saturday, April 7th, 2018
Cat & Dog
Cat was on the feather
Showing me where the feather was, dear
“Did you catch a cat?”
Barely, like one of those quantum particles,
snapping my fingers,
hard to hold
…
Our cat knows
which one is the prey
in our current game
I saw a woman
play Three Card Monte with her dog
she’d put a dog treat under one of the cups
go swish, swish, swish, mix them up,
and the dog would point his nose at
the correct cup every time
and eat the treat
While this is impressive
it’s not quite as impressive as it looks
because she cheated;
she kept her right hand
on the cup with the treat,
never took it off,
went swish swish swish swish swish and
always kept her hand on the treat cup
The dog just watched it go
back and forth
and never left the right hand
When she stopped
he would touch his nose to it;
he would get the treat
…
Instead of a fireplace
we low-class have a water tank
there’s usually 10 seconds
between the bubble burps in the aquarium filter
but sometimes it’s 11 or 12
I am a wee odd.
For example, I count how long it takes you
from locking the door
to becoming visible in the parking lot
It used to be 31 seconds
“You mean you count?”
Yes, 1001, 1002, 1003
It used to take you 31 seconds to get out
and then 41 seconds because you were cold and you were carrying more stuff
and recently it was 51 seconds
and I started thinking, ‘this is getting
too long but you’ll probably stop at
the mail box,’ and I saw you and you had
a package in your hand.
If it had been more than 60 seconds,
I would have come down and checked
“Wow, that’s very nice”
I work what grid I can, he said
black cat, red feather, white line.
~ Smith & Lady
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2018
It’s Going to Be a Beautiful Day
Cat’s hours crouching for a mouse
in the kitchen under the dishwasher
maybe most of night I think as
making coffee to Sun Ra
Miles Davis plays in a silent way
Our hanging crystals in the window
hint at the day’s sparkling potentialities
Sunday a.m. moment between here
and there’s doorway where
light glows from ebb of ember
“Every Sunday’s Easter,” I think
and God responds with a magnificent
spread of light on our dirty window
calling and responding
Husband sees it too, says oo
Then sun goes away, “How dare
that sun go away,” he says, and then
“but actually it didn’t go away
the clouds merely blocked it,
right?”
And they lived happily ever after’s
embroidered on our pillow I tell him
“OK, fair enough,” he says.
–
A silence presses my ear, which is startled
at the quick and subtle answer from
an unexpected calculator taking note
The vastness of roar and silence
leaves one to a soup of thought,
worked over flagellation
“How are you?” husband asks, and I’m
keen now to leaving myself a comfortable mote
in the torrent
Our guppy quivers in the tank, the male guppy
her ever-present satellite, the banner
of his hippie tail happy to be near her
–
On our early morning soundtrack choirboys sing
sober remnant whispers of vespers
Traffic splashes in the early morning spring dark
the aftermath of rain’s laid diamonds
on our storm window
–
When the deal goes down
gonna sit here, before dawn
fishtank light on, our ever-present
Christmas lights silently festive
no computer on my lap,
listen to Chet Atkins chirping
to our slowly twirling
window crystals
The muffled tick of husband’s recliner
he shifts position and crunches
his early a.m. cashews
Black cat wanders cheerful
in the dark
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Saturday, March 24th, 2018
Sun Ra
1
My brother, a man of few words
goes across the street to pick up
a Mexican lunch and after he’s full
he gives me his bag of
leftover fresh tortilla chips
a kind of intimacy
2
Tetras – their movement’s squared off into binary digits
flicking 90 degrees like an object suddenly stimulated in a child’s mobile
half of them draw straight lines one tetra length long
various vectors and tangled orthogonalities
They cloud in their favorite spot, the hollow on the right side of the tank
between the lake rocks and the bookcase
The ones on the edge more quick, shooting long tangents,
unsure what they define
and when they thin they scatter
the cloud loses its mind
When a tetra’s alone, it’s adrift
without the ballast and balance
of its companions
The reflection
from the fishtank’s bubbler
goes up at the same rate
looping like contained
stars on a strip
of quicksilver
3
Lyle Lovette says
stars shine on water
sun burns on sand
4
Jupiter is rising
in the ring of Saturn
to celebrate the equivalence
of the days forthcoming
Polly want a polysaccharide?
5
Staircase at night
Low piano note
Comfortable noir
6
I’m going to get a beer
husband goes off to urinate
we’re a pair
The romance of
cyborg man and
atomic eye woman–
the title of our
next book
“When the rising sun
hits the army tents it’s a tent, son,”
he says, then, “s’n will be gone
before eight”
I say, “Astute observations for hire”
He says, “Call me Am….. Astute Man”
then “I was born on the border of
Tolerance and Intolerance,
Texas.”
7
Were my face an owl
thought not thought but
regard for thock of my
feeling, a mirror bent
down from a tree
undersea
being
8
I’d be a
calm caravan
plodding crucible of mothered feet,
shadow liquid in its shifting
under witnessing stars
Retiform filter
gold sifting loaded loam
easy, like a cold ripening apple
thinking about the sun
in the night
~ Lady
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Sunday, December 10th, 2017
The magic window, our marvelous window, the filigree trees
and the brick apartment building across the street–
when I look when I’m left with a choice about time
I rush it, this big presence like a womb, big cavernous
sky…
The cavernous sky; it was a love affair with the sky
I was languid and intimate with it; It pressed up all around me, The Shape minus me,
if I and I. Or if not, then I in I.
My boundaries like a net, a sieve in a sea with no catch, doors and people,
just this sieve, that’s all, or a catch; a catch full of catch
The sparrows make love on the sidewalk
quick flutters of seed
So many Saturday moments
– Lady
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Saturday, November 25th, 2017
Hands clasped over bewildered head
bent no’ing over the wiped and weathered tableau
which bore its fresh risen bread within the
brand name of the United States
The ten commandments
read off a carton of Pall Mall’s,
sheriff’s medal is mine; ours
immigrants pearling barb wire
irritation immured in the
intimate knowledge of
cowboy stories wandering
native goldenrod
Auntie Em’s fence stands in
remnant against the opaque puff
of redoubled dough
Hoping for a mandalic order of lace edges,
a November drive through the charming chaos
of Grandma Moses’ quilt
A blue torn paper sky
cracker white lining
sun down red
Amnesty prayer flag
clapboard, paint and picket fence
pretty
~ Lady
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Saturday, October 29th, 2016
Waves draw apart and let open
face emerges from warm water of sleep
to lovely cool softly quenching dark
osculation, then passing through some
swift membrane of consciousness
to early Saturday morning in October
plush novelty and nostalgia
couch throw remembered and tendered
around the shoulders new again
the quiet of shut windows
imparts a crispness to calm thoughts
loud above the muted street noise
the stage sets of the seasons
~ Lady
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