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Some Patchwork Omen
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Some Patchwork Omen |
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bel1e Senior Member
since 2006-07-24
Posts 1631
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So begin with pumice and forsythia, words take shape in the throat, like a stone, an omen, a cure for ordinary fevers glistens in a dark red season, mournful November yields its grain, spreading in the fields, its ink over parchment, as X marks the spot on these old treasure maps, eternity unfolding in the creased palms of my hands, the bindings go on winding like clothesline, white against sky, ‘neath a tinsel moon, whose bones have grown thin from so much dreaming, the heart is naught but a swallowed promise in cursive, the word reaps its devastation, upon the lips, illicit as sugar and laudanum, now my tongue is numb and fragile slipping along, the words, the taste of vodka and strawberries, thick against the collarbone, a memory blisters like a kiss, the silkworms plummet from the blue heights of wreckage, refuged in nothing but their innocence, inside of myth, as it sings the night into a languor of yellow scarves and spelling bees, see now, the fevers spill furiously from the pores of the pumice, its light damp over these red mornings in November, as its embers skim the open throats of bullfrogs in a dark red season, its sinew takes shape in my throat, like a stone, an omen, a virus of irregular seams, rampant and swelling its patchwork bears the secret form of the heart, as the phantom in my body, all fever, strings the limbs along electric lines, through the savannah, so dark with their ruby omens, these old shoes go abandoned along the road to Kansas, moths emerge, barefoot in their frenzy, see now, my ankles how fine and useless they have become.  ...from A Passage Through Oz |
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Gentle Spirit Member Patricius
since 2000-10-09
Posts 13989 |
I so enjoy this Oz series you share with us. Many lines and layers in this Belle. Nicely done lady. |
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bel1e Senior Member
since 2006-07-24
Posts 1631 |
Gentle Spirit~ ((thank you)), my friend~ ~hugs |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
I do so enjoy your weavings. It's a delight to have you home again. So you can imagine, too, that I delighted in the throw to Oz. |
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bel1e Senior Member
since 2006-07-24
Posts 1631 |
Sunshine~~~ (((thank you)) for the warm welcome back~~~ Oz is a dreamland of possibilities, to be sure~~~ |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
a pleasure..to see your patchwork... a pleasing quilt of words and images ... indeed.. |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
What beautiful imagery and word choice you have wove into this lovely creation  Ruth |
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