puddle walk framing cozy

towards the puddle in green bootswith auntie janna at uncle leaf and aunt kelsey's

being entertained by aunt kelsey as mama tries a holiday photo shoot

puddly

watercolorings (thanks kissings) (barn kissings)

file under: created things with paint::::: extinct horses (50 animals) (if we are lost then why is there a road) barn fantasy (place i want to live with my family and make art)

p.s. thinking about houses and homes and where to live and how to live. when we pulled up to our current home after driving around to various midwestern cities for thanksgivings, finn said 'house' for the first time. we drove on iowa roads i've never driven on before, and i saw barns that i fell in love with, and dreamed dreams of a writing/art community somewhere out there in the hills and corn. all of the sudden, really in love with barns. and not certain at all as to how we can live, but trying to have a kind of faith. bye!

how we get through the novemberries

file under: old poem thing::::::::::this poem hangs in my mom's room; i think i wrote it as a teenager? or maybe earlier, or later file under: owl gift#1:::::thank you melissa--now it gleams by me as i write

file under: found a cool thing under my nose:::::somehow peter hid the fact that he had this typewriter from me! but, now i know. and sometimes i sit & write. lately, a series with map in the titles of each, probably because i'm thinking on this collaborative project. . .

file under: owl gift #2::::::::jen thanks! and see the green owl shirt fits perfectly. plus, sometimes this one picks up the phone and says clearly HI or YEAH?

file under: what it is to be the november woods in iowa::::shown here with hickory hill creek and appropriate dusk feel

visit back home (chatham illinois

file under::: first, alliteration. then, description:::::forever free finn in just-finished grandma-knit orange sweater (she walked to home ec and picked out the yarn when i was in early labor) frolicking in the forest

funny finn look

flarfing and flipping and falling the leaves down (faleta and finn)

fascinatin' fellows (father--make that grand! father-- and finn)

red hat is complete (but the boy is wiggly)

file under::::a completion:::::::::finished (imperfectly of course) my first hat ever;;;i may need to put a strap-like thing on it after all if finn keeps pulling it off--nevertheless here it be! (those cables are owls though some of the owls are horribly disfigured i admit)

palimpsest and erasure and epic and

file under: fitting first art project by finn::::look what he has done to the book i was about to start reading~ a palimpsest of sorts (that's how i feel too) file under: project from a 60's poetry anthology book my first love gave me:::::it's a book about to be turned into erasures and i'm keeping the photos intact!
i will call the project "on!on a if! of water"

crow! see?
haunted sky! see?

(as finn says)

file under: project that keeps bending and morphing:and i keep getting fancy paper to write it on::: but i am i am i am going to keep working on it, this epic poem i'm calling "book of birth" and so then!

in the book of birth mammal existence.
in the color of birth the whale mooing in the sky
deepstar on its toe.
Birthcolor rising a fox-soul tramping
and alongside the book, one minute.
and alongside the minute, moss.
form and matter in the book of birth (at the back) a small day stubbing its toe.
in chapter 2 there is a soul guardian like yourself!

and a psychopomp, and a midwife

the moon and trick or treating and the moon

file under: irresistible thing:::::more pictures from all hallow's eve; i had to do it; the moon followed us (this is the night finn learned to do moon sign!); and then there's finn and calvin being in the wagon;plus all the babies on the couch; also witness the chaos that spider lives in and creates, especially with books! (and see one of his eight legs sticking out there?)

spider baby (or is he a walrus?) halloween with wizard mama & unicorn baby & lion baby!!