Author Archives: randomyriad

Becoming Awake

I found this amazing passage on A Pilgrim in Narnia, a blog I have followed for years, as part of a longer piece. In these few paragraphs, Annie Dillard puts into words the most accurate description of maturing consciousness that I have … Continue reading →

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Visions of April: Poems and Pictures

Why Child I draw a storm of letters, Tangled in spider silk, buzzing winged things flutter. Vibrations multiplied fingers on strings stutter. I roll a bowl of noise between the frames, birds of different feathers flock swoop the bees shock … Continue reading →

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More April Poems: Untitled

April 3 Black birds red shoulders Blaze on blue across green shrilling the sound red over the shaded water. April 4 Again the last years dead stand out darkly against the green spreading wings  April 5 The world’s smallest violin … Continue reading →

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The First Two Poems of April

Fluid I I Go quietly, The earth is not my home. inside my skin and bones works of copper plate resonate  patterned frequencies. Gears click and grind. I float downstream knobby feet to the sun tiny hands of water  pass me … Continue reading →

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Playing with Zoom

I took my new zoomier camera outside yesterday and continued practicing and experimenting. I can’t believe how much the landscape has changed in the last 3 weeks, so much green and leafy going on.  I was trying to get a … Continue reading →

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