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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 ‘Peace’ Category
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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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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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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Thursday, July 28th, 2016
Moment courts that I be not afraid but
trust the line I walk to time earned in
expanses of allowed whistles to a song
of self esteem, a bounce in my step, fealty
to sights noticed and ambient sounds heard
generous wallet and spontaneous talk
face slack, relaxed without frantic smile
except one come naturally like
sating rain
~ Lady
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Sunday, July 17th, 2016
The colophon of a book
of the paradise of my life – would
I let myself enjoy it – includes block print bees,
fruit trees, pineapples, haystacks and
wheat wreathes, mint juleps and distillations
cultural and otherwise, figures in almanacs
rendered into prizes for specimens shown
at a county fair
We could walk into this streaming sunshine logo, me and thee,
holding hands up to the curlicue of a wooden arch drizzled
in vine, ducking under leaf and grapes and other emblems
of harvest and civilization
Or we can walk into someplace wild named only
by calligraphic monks and keepers of words
glossy books of birds come to life
Summer morning before it gets hot
swallows divebombing us in plucky cheer
us alien in overgrown grasses of a nature
preserve, new eyes of animated stick figures
a children’s drawing taped
on my office cabinet
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Saturday, June 25th, 2016
Learning’s germ for fertilizing
eyes and ears, a head a heart, a hand,
a pen’s milt on action’s platform,
and it goes around again
~ Lady
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2016
The drumming of my feet as I run
heats my blood, pumps my oxygen,
syncs my thought, my strategies to live,
so many strategies –
During planned time with the universe on my couch
I recalibrate, I seek to meet the ideals of my ethos
a breeze comes through the window
I taste serenity in my head
I release myself into being held
Here I am this me and we are we
wrapped in thought and sensation
Out there a nebula looks like
the Madonna and Child, a calm commentary
painted in vast matter and light
~ Lady
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Tuesday, June 14th, 2016
Letting go of chattering nattering
ears looking between zen hands
The effulgence of
cool breath like a draught of water
makes one glad to be alive
Preparation’s packthread, sure, like
putting a saddle on my horse
or taking time with my shoelaces
while space reaches into my skin
and I notice the odyssey
~ Lady
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Thursday, June 9th, 2016
Land of bright trust, of reborn eyes,
of friendship
With a carefree song in my heart
I’m returning to consilient whistling whilst
I pull my needle through the sewn,
the latchhooked veldt, the carded wool
the honed circle, harvesting the crop,
happy to be under the control
of that which I’ve sowed
~ Lady
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