vortex streets

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boats, eddies

I said to Pete, this photo of my neck is actually quite beautiful. And he said, if you say so—

images: crinoid fossils; brugmansia, photo: dorothy clews; surgery incisions, photo: pete zwetkof; Denver International Airport; catch and floodout (detail) tapestry by dorothy clews; vortex street, NASA image

semaphore

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boats

brugmansia, photo by Dorothy Clews

olives

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boats

pictures make me think of eating olives    • 

•    all the places one can eat them      •

images: washday blues, photo: dorothy clews; postcard ca. 1910-1913; view from Heroncrest, photo: carolyn hearne; Olives, photo: carol drinkwater; flotilla, photo: margaret sunday

thinking

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boats, eddies

thinking about form—

how things encountered belong to forms, find their forms, define, renew and structure forms.

the forms I think about when I am in this space

are open cups, closed cups and spirals, which are at once both open and closed forms.

undulating and interlacing lines are spirals whose lines are irregularized, loosened; they release the momentum of spirals, but inhabit different regularity.

beholding is a consequential action: how many coils rotate off one axis, or spin off from a vortex outward on their separate planes/ counting up, attending, until one: the curve where energy deflates, loops into pattern.

how many involutions do we walk before a maze becomes a wilderness—or walks us through toward grace?

open cups fill up with motion, slide atop it: pulled by inner/outer curvatures in mated surface tensions; and enclosed cups of course, are waiting to burst open.

voids contained by energy are spirals; those sustained by mass are cups.

nutshells

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ploop.

Darning Rock (21 century) northeast Colorado

here, another week

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boats

in October when I came to visit and I drew you sleeping

a mermaid

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boats

 

found the storm and slipped inside your boat—

tonight, we brought you home

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boats

 

ceiling vaults, Denver International Airport

…and this, again…

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boats

a story

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1st Year

July 4th Parade Day—a tapestry placed in the privet to commemorate the year a longhorn steer broke loose and almost caught its horns in my snow crab apple tree. People pass by every day and no one sees this rose.

 

2nd Year

Near first frost—I found beetles hiding in the pocket— they were slippered in, side-by-side like herring fish.