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Texting with my daughter
Reminiscing
Art
Christ’s Entry
I can’t really say I loved him. Love does not come easy for me. He was my first kiss, a little bit of making out, kind words from his thin lips.
I went on to guard the pool, to save a life, my tanned olive skin a beacon for men. Then one day a man walked through the gate and I watched his choppy strokes across the water and married him.
We vowed to love art. To make art out of our lives. We traveled both locally and abroad but that huge painting on the Getty wall stays with me— Christ’s Entry into Brussels in 1889 by James Ensor.
When will He come?
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NaPoWriMo Day 21 prompt— a person forgotten, a job taken, a memorable piece of art, an unanswerable question
Clementine Hunter’s Juke Joint
At Melrose Plantation
African House still stands
(restoration completed)
& murals by Clementine Hunter
(also restored)
show the juke joint
down the road
on Saturday night
maybe a knife fight
dance and swing
til shots ring
will silence the song
all the people gone
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dVerse prompt to write a quadrille using the word juke. Louisiana artist Clementine Hunter painted a juke joint as part of her murals on the walls of African House.
Ink on Paper
words read in Japan
centuries past in Spring
fill the room with song
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NaPoWriMo prompt to write concerning a piece of art from the collection of the NY Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Two Women Reclining on the Floor of a Room and Reading a Book, ca 1730, monochrome woodblock print, ink on paper, Nishikawa Sukenobu
Emojiing
Emojiing again
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Visual Alliteration
I want to write like Dali
I want to write like Dali painted
disjointed
everything capable
of fluidity whether a horse
or time
or an elephant and rhino on stilts
elongate the llllllls
create more holes in the OOOOOOs
put a whole world inside just one
put a landscape on the table
a seascape in knees
find paragraphs
that grow trees
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dVerse prompt on surrealism
Viewing Picasso
Is there a medium he didn’t try?
oil on canvas
oil and India ink
pastels on paper
folded painted sheet metal
bronze
varnished gouache
oil on cut out mounted on glass
red clay white clay
ceramic plates
oil on plywood
lithographic wash
linoleum plate
pencil
and charcoal
on wove paper
oil on newspaper
etching on copper plate
The Rape 1938 drypoint on copper plate on handmade Arches laid paper
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dVerse prompt to do a portrait using detail. After viewing Picasso Museum in Malaga, Spain, I was noting all the art mediums he experimented with.
African Ants
These are the ants that I read about in school and finally see them in Ghana.
Ukiyo-e III
“pictures of the floating world”
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