Freddezza
She served the supper guests, Falsetto’s Italiano working long hours on her feet, ice flagging the windows a full house of wine-warmed faces, by midnight she smelled like warm […]
ART
All Nature?
You know people live there: but they’re not visible a bar sign blinks open soiled lacy curtains droop in a cafe’ window & melancholy burns up from the asphalt
In Adoration of Art
“Sirens of Rutino” by Adrian Arleo I’m at the halfway point of my month-long stay on Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, New Mexico. The landscape is stunning and ever-changing and the
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Find What You Love
Yesterday the leaves on the trees were clapping for you the wind all reckless and wild-fresh gusting with imaginings of us, of memories sloughed off with time yet lingering in
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Doodle Mind and Writing
24 x 24 acrylic The idea for this painting originated in Italy; after observing a tiled, stylized cross in a church, the shape reminded me of Native American capes
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It All Happens in a Flash
Have you ever found yourself walking down the street, lost in thought when suddenly you notice a flash of perception, such as seeing a reflection in a plate glass window…and
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Be Dare and Bare
In our backyard shop-artroom, I am working on a mosaic for our Copper River cabin; a stylized salmon spawning scene that is played out year after year when the reds run aplenty, and
A Story About the Body
A Story About the Body -Robert Hass The young composer, working that summer at an artist’s colony, had watched her for a week. She was Japanese, a painter,
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To Cast
I need no more than a boat and an oar. Painting: “Warrior Canoe”, 30″ x 60″, by Holly Friesen. Holly’s painting was published on the blog: tweetspeak…the best in poetry
Breath and Bones: Memoir Excerpt #4
By mid May, there is no refreezing of melt water in the villages far north of the Brooks Range. Yet on one spring visit to Kaktovik, an Inupiat village
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