12 Sunday Feb 2012
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© Joan Currie - The South San Francisco Bay
Plum-purple was the west; but spikes of light
Spear’d open lustrous gashes, crimson-white;
(Where the eye fix’d, fled the encrimsoning spot,
And, gathering, floated where the gaze was not;)
And through their parting lids there came and went
Keen glimpses of the inner firmament:
by Gerard Manley Hopkins
I basked in the glorious but fleeting sunset.
12 Sunday Feb 2012
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© Ryan Chua
I knew a woman, lovely in her bones,
When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them;
Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one:
The shapes a bright container can contain!
from I Knew a Woman by Theodore Roethke
Thinking back to my best Valentine’s Day celebrations…
Model: Lauren DiMarco
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05 Sunday Feb 2012
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© Carmen Campos
In the warm, lofted air,
Soft lips together pressed,
Soft wispy hair,
She stops to rest,
from Girl Help by Janet Lewis
Savoring little pockets of time throughout the day…
Model: Lauren DiMarco
22 Sunday Jan 2012
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© Khrystyana Kazakova
The rain of a night and a day and a night
Stops at the light
Of this pale choked day. The peering sun
Sees what has been done.
from After Rain by Edward Thomas
This is a day for blissful solitude.
Model: Khrystyana Kazakova
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30 Friday Dec 2011
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I cannot say what loves have come and gone,
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.
from What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, And Where, And Why by Edna St. Vincent Millay
But what a song it was – it mattered not how short!
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29 Tuesday Nov 2011
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What is yellow? pears are yellow,
Rich and ripe and mellow.
from Color by Christina Rossetti
A pear – my favorite shape of late.
Watercolor © Joan Currie
22 Tuesday Nov 2011
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21 Monday Nov 2011
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© Joan Currie
A wagon stopped before the house; she heard
The heavy oilskins of the grocer’s man
Slapping against his legs. Of a sudden whirred
Her heart like a frightened partridge, and she ran
And slid the bolt, leaving his entrance free;
Sonnets from an Ungrafted Tree by Edna St. Vincent Millay
My table is laden with the fecundity of the season.
16 Wednesday Nov 2011
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© Lauren DiMarco
Come away, come, sweet love,
The golden morning breaks,
All the earth, all the air
Of love and pleasure speaks,
Teach thine arms then to embrace,
And sweet rosy lips to kiss,
And mix our souls in mutual bliss.
(Anonymous, English)
I miss our sweet bodies intertwined.
18 Tuesday Oct 2011
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© Joan Currie
A moment only he feels the spell
Of the place and the hour, and the secret dread
Of the lonely belfry and the dead;
from The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The spirits of the dead swirled all around me on my walk today.
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