June Self Portrait Challenge: environment # 2

Posted on | June 21, 2007 | 5 Comments


This place is big with words, with ideas, with art. The walls remember e.e. cummings and Stanley Kunitz; Grace Paley’s voice and Mary Oliver’s eye for noticing the profound in minute details. A fish weathervane tilts out my window. A long catwalk connects the studios; roses tumble wildly below. I stand in the mirror taking pictures to remember this, so that when everything else pushes in, I’ll have snapshots with light flooding through big windows and the fan whirring. I’ll have Pam Houston’s voice and the laughter of other students sharing work. I’ll have the images of Robert Yarboroughs paintings dancing like sunspots on the inside of my eyelids, and Wired Puppy coffee, and houses painted lavender and lemon and ocean blue. I’ll have the memory of hours writing, quiet pooling up like water around me; and I’ll have the seal’s slick wet heads bobbing up out of the water to eye me sitting, sand flecking my calves, alone on the shore.

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5 Responses to “June Self Portrait Challenge: environment # 2”

  1. Sharon
    June 21st, 2007 @ 10:57 pm

    Beautiful writing. Beautiful imagery.

  2. Johanna
    June 22nd, 2007 @ 2:36 am

    Beautiful. Light flooding through big windows ~ that’s what I long for right now, too ..

  3. Sam
    June 22nd, 2007 @ 7:38 am

    I’m so glad you got to have this time – such a gift. And you are SO GORGEOUS! (And I love that mirror, and would have to refrain from taking it off the wall and home with me!)

  4. Helena
    June 22nd, 2007 @ 1:10 pm

    Beautiful.

  5. Helena
    June 22nd, 2007 @ 1:57 pm

    Beautiful. Really beautiful

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