Have you ever thought –
“When you are here, I miss you” ?
There’s a song in that.
Have you ever thought –
“When you are here, I miss you” ?
There’s a song in that.
happy…
on the outside, but
with all this rain my house is
crying on the inside
s.o.s.
plastic and duct tape –
making a water feature
on the upper porch
happy redux…
weeding and planting
in (more) rain – nice enough that
I’ll do it again
©kathleen c cooper 7/01/15
finally! it’s been a long winter for me but i took the “opportunity” to finish this sculpture – just in time for pentecost. This is made of copper wire and steel and is about 11.5″ square by 3′ tall. I’m really happy about this piece…i had the idea in mind for a long time but couldn’t decide how to start the copper knitting. once i got started, it came together just as i’d imagined. hope you like it. come visit to see it (and others) in person!
Tsunami City
Storm waves are
Crashing up off the harbor
onto the balcony.
As close as I dare, I step
to the edge to look –
A ship that size has never been so close and
I’ve never seen this water look so
Deep and deeply blue.
My keys are in my hand, and a bag, some papers, a photo,
but I can’t grab everything fast enough –
Surf is rolling in and the harbor’s now the sea –
And it’s all getting ruined.
Time to move. Time to run.
-Kathleen C Cooper, November 2, 2013
When I dream of being other people
When I am other people in my dreams
It’s usually ominous, augural
Like the time I dreamt I couldn’t walk and found out
The next day that she
Got a diagnosis of ms –
multiple sclerosis – parading, coursing over her nerves and muscles.
A terrifying dream of getting beat up, or threatened,
Was remembered the next afternoon during a telephone chat
While he
waited for a bus
And he started yelling and cursing – warning someone to ‘back off, man!’
My heart was stopped, and panicking
I begged him to get away-
To call for the police.
Or the time
I dreamt of my teeth
Becoming like wood
Peeling and starting to crack like old shutters or window frames
At an old beach cottage
I looked it up in a dream dictionary
And learned that some Hispanic peoples
Consider problematic teeth dreams to indicate
That a loved one is not well
And then that day she
Fell
And gashed her head – her ancient and solid head full of nearly all its teeth –
The concussion was making her vomit.
That’s why I was startled when I saw you today.
Kathleen C Cooper October 8, 2013
Running
I ran into my day today
Out of bed on two feet and down the steps to sugary cereal and hours of tv cartoons
I ran into my day today
Quickly to bus stop grabbing at my things and hoping it was all there
I ran into my day today
Across the room to silence the offending alarm after a long long night of books and beer
I ran into my day today
Unwillingly pulled from a dream by my beautiful crying baby
I ran into my day today
Into a daily routine of loving and watching
coaxing urging praising feeding nagging supplying
I ran into my day today
And there was nothing there
I ran into my day today
One foot in front of the other watching the bricks and pavement go by
I ran into my day today
Nov 20 2009
ok i get it…hardly any of my friends want to set up an account (yet another username and password, ugh) to view this blog even though they say…”send me a link”. so now it’s public and anyone can view it. here we go.
fusing words and metal
and the ordinary ordinary
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