Showing posts with label les dames d'abord. Show all posts
Showing posts with label les dames d'abord. Show all posts

Monday, January 20, 2020

I Know What The Walls Would Say If They Could Talk







They would say




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Because from top to bottom


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left to right

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inside 


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and out

anita pelayo rivera les dames s'abord

 
anita pelayo rivera les dames d'abord

my husband has

painstakingly hammered

permanently inscribed

his affection


with every timber, measured detail 

and stroke of his brush 

that reads 

like 



Are you fluent in the language 

a friend
a parent
a partner
a spouse
a neighbor

uses to communicate their admiration?





Saturday, June 11, 2016

This should never end.



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But it does.

And 

when this

 
les dames d'abord
withers into memory

I make my own

go here to hear how this is pronounced


with the help of friends. 


les dames d'abord


les dames d'abord


June has planted its petals

in the heart


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that will bloom into

a July and August 

of 

childhood discovery

that never grows old


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because




remains.


les dames d'abord




Thank you for being my model, Clara @Clarabelvintage
Thank you for being my friends in play Penny, Violet, The Dutchess, Irina, Clara, Vera, countless others who never stop searching.

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Anniversary Waltz

It's your syncopated stomp
at daybreak chasing
the paycheck.
It's the well-rehearsed turn
of your key in the lock
every six o'clock.

It's this pas de deux
we do
to celebrate 34 years 
not floating on a cloud
but on worn and scored
earth beneath our odyssey.

Give me 12,410 more 
everydays
with you
rather than one still-life
bouquet of fragile promises.


les dames d'abord



les dames d'abord



les dames d'abord