Sunday, July 06, 2008

Spider Web


Spider Web
Originally uploaded by vajra.
above the wisteria arbor
light catches the slender
filaments intricate
regular catching the afternoon
light

anger and boredom
cannot be held while
pulling weeds
in a garden

Same Old, Same Old

McCain. Like W, Only Older.
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Red Statem of Mine


McCain.gif picture by InsultComicDog
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Mr. Magoo and DUHbya 2

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Saturday, July 05, 2008

Mid-Summer


Sammy
Originally uploaded by vajra.
Luz pulls weeds under
the lazy tabby's serene
indifferent gaze

Friday, July 04, 2008

Symbolic Modelling


Clean Cut
Originally uploaded by vajra.

pare away the usual
order your complexity
keep only what is necessary
for utility or
beauty

Cat Friday


Wary
Originally uploaded by vajra.

Independence Day

"An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
__Thomas Paine

Thursday, July 03, 2008

independence


Fourth of July Rose
Originally uploaded by vajra.
fog rolls in tonight
ready for tomorrow's picnics
and shivers on display

Sarah Wyman mixed media collage

Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Seconds


Pink Remnant
Originally uploaded by vajra.
taking two old bowls
from the cupboard shelf
imperfect rounds of earth
heated to stone
now cool brown as
a lazy stream wends
slowly forward still
trailing its yesterdays

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

In the News

They're writing about Frank O'
again and getting it mostly wrong.
You know who they are
talking about how he only wrote a few great
poems and was too this or that
How many poems does it take to make one
great? Would that eliminate Sappho?
Or Coleridge made famous for what he didn't write about
Xanadu and all that
Of course too many whiskeys and cigarettes and rough
trade make poetry a hard row
but we all have to hoe the row we're given
and escaping from Baltimore in opposition to the Gothic
master to New York makes one giddy
and one needn't suffer for art
when life and the blank page are
certainly enough to make anyone weep



Pressed Flowers
Originally uploaded by vajra.

Monday, June 30, 2008

Perdernal

pin the white curtains
against the bluest sky
simplify simplify








Reminder of Abiquiu, #2
Originally uploaded by vajra.