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Category: Photos
The Peculiar Egg
“Seated Nude” Considered one of Henri Matisse’s most important sculptures. It’s here in New Hampshire at the Currier Museum of Art.
Old #poems #amwriting #amrevising #amlooking
While I was looking for another piece of writing tonight, I found a poem I wrote about my grandmother a long time ago. I sort of liked it. I revised it a little and liked it even more. Here it is, along with the photo that inspired it:
A Surprising Photograph of Grace Milvada Caroline Matilda Robison
She told stories:
The Linotype was a dangerous
Machine. If you weren’t careful,
It would take your arm at the elbow,
A little careless daydreaming;
She was pulled from the sixth grade
When influenza took her mother;
She had wanted to be a teacher
But never returned to school;
Her husband almost killed a bull
After it chased her across the pen;
The bull smelled his anger,
Stayed away till dark;
During a draught, it rained
Directly on their garden,
But left the house dry;
Ball lightning burst though the door,
Bounced through the kitchen
Before disappearing.
She thought mostly of going home,
Dropped twenty cents into a coin purse
And walked away in her nightgown,
A ghost inching down the road.
I have a photo of my grandmother
Standing atop the radiator of a Ford
In a bathing suit and swimming
Cap. It is a cracked, out-of-focus,
Yellow with age,
Her most crystalline surviving
Testament. The light surrounds her.
She is there, windmilling
Her arms to maintain balance
While the photographer says,
“One more second, I’ve almost got it!
Stay right where you are!”
Speedy delivery! – Boca Raton birth photographer
This baby just couldn’t wait another moment… born outside the hospital… Speedy delivery! – Boca Raton birth photographer.
Then and now
Grace and I standing in the exact same spot then (2005) and now (2011) after a lot of hard renovation (all of us) and growing up (her) and getting older (me).
#escape #walk #point #berm #orbit #spiral #glint #grace
Escape
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Ocean nymph with her seaweed treasure
Gail and I on a seaweed collecting expedition
I have new #Fiction here: #Conjunctions
Conjunctions: 57 The Kin Issue
I was very excited to see my contributor’s copy of Conjunctions arrive today. Many thanks to the wonderful team that but this issue together. It’s a beautiful book. Many thanks to Bradford Morrow for including my story “Charlie Moon’s Last Performance” amongst stories and poems by so many wonderful writers (including, among others, Joyce Carol Oates, Rick Moody, Karen Russell…and my story follows fiction by Ann Beattie and precedes fiction by Peter Orner). Here are some photos:
