#adventapertures2025: day 25

Remembering that it happened once,We cannot turn away the thought,As we go out, cold, to our barnsToward the long night’s end, that weOurselves are living in the worldIt happened in when it first happened,That we ourselves, opening a stall(A latch thrown open countless timesBefore), might find them breathing there,Foreknown: the Child bedded in straw,The motherContinue reading “#adventapertures2025: day 25”

#adventapertures2025: day 10

I would like to thank God for: Cyan and Cerulean, Arctic and Azure, Teal and Turquoise, for the ever varying light of the sky and for the infinite ocean hues. I only asked for Blue. Tim Eddy I’ve been thinking about how the Wise-Ones might have planned their journey.  I am learning to recognise thatContinue reading “#adventapertures2025: day 10”

Christmas Eve: for reframing

Totally conscious, and apropos of nothing, you come to me.Is someone here? I ask.The moon. The full moon is inside your house. My friends and I go running out into the street.I’m in here, comes a voice from the house,but we aren’t listening. We’re looking up at the sky.My pet nightingale sobs like a drunkContinue reading “Christmas Eve: for reframing”

k’s big bday gratitude project 4: CHANGE!

So … there are plans and then are change of plans … arrrrgh! … breathe … BREATHE … and begin again … Owing to circumstances beyond my control, the dates for the ‘episodes’ exhibition have been moved; and the scope of the exhibition has needed to be less expansive than original discussions had led meContinue reading “k’s big bday gratitude project 4: CHANGE!”

day 24

This morning as I walked along the lakeshore,I fell in love with a wrenand later in the day with a mousethe cat had dropped under the dining room table. In the shadows of an autumn evening,I fell for a seamstressstill at her machine in the tailor’s window,and later for a bowl of broth,steam rising likeContinue reading “day 24”