Saturday, May 29, 2010

the french have a word for it


dappled sunlight.  can you imagine having a word for dappled sunlight? does that make it more real?






i don't know the word. do you?

Friday, May 28, 2010

the first poem i ever loved

The Story of Augustus Who Would Not Have Any Soup

Augustus was a chubby lad;
Fat ruddy cheeks Augustus had;
And everybody saw with joy,
The plump and hearty healthy boy.
He ate and drank as he was told,
And never let his soup get cold.
But one day, one cold Winter's day,
He screamed out--"Take the soup away!
O take the nasty soup away!
I won't have any soup today!"

How lank and lean Augustus grows!
Next day he scarcely fills his cloths,
Yet, though he feels so weak and ill,
The naughty fellow cries out still--
"Not any soup for me, I say:
O take the nasty soup away!
I won't have any soup today!"

The third day comes; oh; what a sin!
To make himself so pale and thin.
Yet, when the soup is put on table,
He screams as loud as he is able,
"Not any soup for me, I say:
O take the nasty soup away!
I won't have any soup today!"

Look at him now, the fourth day's come!
He scarcely weighs a sugar-plum;
He's like a little bit of thread,
And on the fifth day he was--dead!

by Heinrich Hoffmann



Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Relieves fatigue. Sold everywhere.



Time bleeds through the images on the street.  Walker Evans. Andy Warhol. Jasper Johns. Reality dissolves into abstraction. These streets carry the memories of the South, of nights of blues, nights of rap.

And color. Orange and mint and lime and yellow and bright red. And texture.  Crisp and bright or soft and faded, peeling the past away. Add soft white blossoms. Perfect. Lift it for a room, a pattern, a painting. Or just see.






























Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Monday, May 24, 2010

You might miss them.......


If you drove by in a car


you would certainly miss them.



Or if  you rented a horse and carriage, you would most certainly be absorbed in the clippetty clop of horseshoes on the pavement


And you would miss these guys


And this lovely pattern


And twist of green


The swirl and height


If you rode your bike, you would fly by so fast. And if you were walking with a friend, surely all of your attention would be on their smiling face


You might not stop to see


the lace filigree,  the squash bulbs


the flowers and leaves, the geometry


the arabesque


the palm



and the small door



So I will show you.