Call and Response: Day 26: Après Midi

Après Midi
Originally uploaded by vajra

drinking wine after fish
fresh caught and painted
or the woman clad
in her thin chemise
watch and earring caught in porcelain
above the bathwater now cooled
stilled around her fine blush pink
shoulders the waves
of Trouville in the background

we have come through
pain so much
and time since we saw
these same swirls and daubs of
paint but we
will always have
Paris

Call and Response: Day 26: Ordinary Day

I am coming your direction
branch of pinon pressed
in the mailbox here arrives there,
transformed to luxuriant eucalyptus
like a one dollar postcard of the masters
and captivating sculpture in the back yard
of the brilliant ordinary day

Call and Response: Day 25: Poetry Saxophone

She wore a blue

tattoo right hand

while her left

knew

turquoise

rings and

gold

loops on her

wrist bones

taut as the slick

soar from her

poetry

saxophone

(watching Joy Harjo, Placitas, NM 6.13.10)

Call And Response: Day 25: Everything Old

Everything Old, 2
Originally uploaded by vajra

everything old will wither
fade crumble
tumble
into the sea
into dust

shards of pottery
bits of metal
a few beads
turquoise
coral

here and there
a sparkle
gold perhaps
or a bit of
bone

Call and Response: Day 24: In the Wind

Oh to put my head in the wind

nose to what's ahead

My possessions tied securely

with a masking tape cross

Shirtsleeves

Shirtsleeves
Originally uploaded by vajra

so warm the sun
light dapples sidewalks
and we walk to tables
under trees and awnings
having saluted roses
daisies and dogs

Call and Response: Day 23: Trying

From the weft we wiggle
perpetual green finds its way

free every heat year
each new day of trying

forgiveness stalks

Call And Response: 23 Days: Travel

Coffee Culture
Originally uploaded by vajra

I have abandoned
certainty
tossed aside
too heavy to carry
across the desert
of my heart

Left only questions
sudden
pain and laughter
sides aching
while I trudge
into hope