The Princess Bride

I died the day I said

'i do'

The little me I had imagined

blossoming into a great big me

dissolved

behind

duty and responsibility

and

then

I

found

love.

In ten little fingers

and

ten little toes.

And a new me

bloomed

and bloomed

and 

bloomed.

getting back in the business mindset

getting back in the business mindset

I am doing a new thing here.

Monday Funday

All I do
is cook and clean
when is there
time to act on dreams?

When lost amongst the dish suds
My other self gathers flowers in heaps
jete leaps
sails in waters blue
singing
dancing
wearing glittering jewels

Women are such beautiful things
they are darkness
they are light
I am beckoned from the horizon line
to gather up and join the procession
those no longer baking the bread
washing the sheets
birthing the babies
...the cooking the cleaning the hiding the weaning
the whining
the judgements
the looks
the confinements

Asking elders what they did?
Oh, doll, you just wake them up
fix them up
prop them up
push them on
make the lines'
drive the cars
build the houses
rape the lawns

kiss the children
love them well
send them off
...to hell?

I stand by and wave
and smile
and lie
yes, life is difficult
suck it up, little one.
My little ones too?

GDR

the motherland

tells her a story

with each step she takes

through mountains of glory

and wooded road ends

meeting her fate.

THE OLDER

THE OLDER

feeling dejected.

Neglected

by my own skin

my shins

black and blue

climbing fences over you.

Turning them against me

yet 

minds for themselves

if the faith persists

they have been on their own side

all along

and that which you have given up for them

has no bearing

aside from the deep welts

the feelings 

depthless

from that vast empty 

echo down in.

And one more makes four.

The Daughter's voice
calls in the night.
Through the stillness
it lingers.

trouble.

So I know that I should be sleeping

and that the morning is sure and soon to come

and I know that there is no reason

however here I sit

thinking of the energy/connection/connectivity between people

whether I like it or not

and I think of a man purely from the standpoint of what I see reflected back at me

or what I feel when he is looking -or thinking -of me.

Am I right? I don't care.

It doesn't matter.

So, in this situation, I get up and text. He is nearby and I know it will be wrong by morning

yet I am compelled.

And so I set in motion a rolling that gets us within connection distance of each other.

Connection distance.

And, there I was

floating

in the pond

in a boat

high and mighty

and gazing at the stars

food for the living night

in whatever shape or form it came in

and what I saw is unexplainable

and unable to be recreated

and mine

somewhere in the deepest recesses of my brain

whether or not I came home with damp feet

and breathless

grinning.

Gardens of Dreams.

Don't know what I am here for
living like wasted space
many avenues
of people slinging the blues
masks to shed
trading spaces, trading beds

If following the heart
is the way to go
who pays for the ads?

The head
leading in another direction
marches in line, in tune
sublime

yet, the soul
the something other
knocking
clocking
follows its own path

brambles
streams
rainbows
dreams
there are no dishes, no laundry, no meetings, no outfits
just feeling
and doing
and
the grin is wide.

Little Dress Black

There is a dress with my name on it
a something
a little something
that has a neckline
causing

a dream
of flashing silver
of a smile and a spark
and a shy gaze towards a magical moment

and fade to black.

Hays Field

the mornings

which could have been early or late

dew on the grasses at the bottom

just drying up on top

running fingers over the tips 

feet following the path

up Hays field

looking for the milkweed

blossoms still tucked into their tidy and perfect felt pockets

the flight path of the monarch leading my way

eyes closed

I can smell the earth

smell the sounds of the day

and I am one with this all

my universe

finding my place

not knowing I needed to be found.

Only later,

later,

having to call what I had been given a name

thinking on the experience

of being wild in the wild

connections to trees and grass and sun and rain

it was a life

and it was mine.

((getting it))

Not knowing about how it will feel
but knowing the focus
the effect
the heat
the touch,

to clear my head to find the space within
sit with it
and breathe.
Listen.

You will want it too.


((And I can get it for you.))

the woman with the long pearls.

the woman with the long pearls.
She was,
and I wasn't.
No matter
nothing
floating
gorgeous
light
glowing (((glow)))
injest it
sequest it
you burn
so slow


***

Strength
through his eyes
green
and into mine
I dream

of her
breathing.


***

boredgames

A battle,

he gets me to talk

then ignores me

like a kids

gathering attention

in his little glass box.

The Basis of FTR

Spill it, sister.  And live free.

This is what we should teach the daughters.

Sisters, of course, already know.

Are you
a daughter or a sister?

A group of women 
A circle 
some hats
more likely,
with smelly cats.
Spinsters?
Fat?
Grotesque?
Who cares?
These ladies-who-lunch 
don't give for the stares.
Just laughing
and smiles
around the globe
Sisters with daughters
wherever she goes.

FTR 1

the fragments are large

and groved

like lands

distant.

Lovely.

And she sat.

And waited.

With wings on.

Intention

The light
Golden
enveloping
unspoken
in smiles
beaming out
surrounding.

The cloud
spun from within
of fear
and greed
a need with no end
no end
to heed.
Shelter
we think
yet destruction
of fortresses
greater than good.
A pestilent pool
of gloom
Misunderstood.

Fragility?
A test.
Challenges?
A quest.
Perseverance.
Honesty.
Truth.
Vision.

Follow the voice
it hums.
This is where
the Golden light
resides.

5th Element

what is it about pain?

The feeling of feeling

for the gifted.

Feb 2014 performance piece

Performance piece:

In a glass window 

like Bergdor'fs 

writing 

with music on and a crazy outfit and a glass of champagne

giving a lap dance to my spine and my seat to the beat

and I have drawn a crowd

as they draw me

and I have two younger gentleman

stylized

covering my faux pas

with sticky notes to the offending moment
exaggeration at my mortifications
((perhaps the scene calls to draw rosy cheeks and characterize - how blatant is one without the other?))

the piece is saying:  See this woman?  See this woman.
this is woman, see how raw and amazing?

Yet the is edited by whoever you, with viewers baggage.

((-make the two gentleman into anything at any time, they can be a different thing with a tip and top of their hat. simple as that.))

((cast differently for effect, seasons, occurrences, places in time.  styles of an era, attitudes, political performance....))

The Beast

Capture an emotion
a point in time
and that one thing
embody it, that which your voice creates.

songs like characters
characters as music
the sound
captures the spirit
pieces of the piece.

be the sexy
be the sultry
be the beast.

be the vixen
be the girl
be the child

be the teacher
be the learner
be the woman

Rise up
rise up
rise up
and sing.

unedited.

unedited.
untouched.
in tears am I
underneath it all
under ground
hiding the tremors between the piles and piles

when you hear the music out of the pattern
out of context
and you didn't know the voice was talking to you.
and then the music turns to just pulses
and you see yourself
sitting
cold
in a room
below
alone
and you want to punch yourself
and make you bleed
leave a scar to remember
tomorrow
for tomorrow

and pinecones,
they leave a mark
and bark
bark.