Dust

O! claustrophobic air―

apparent and busy in the sun.

Dust hangs in waves of spring,

a universe from the bliss of nowhere.

What fallen star, what robin,

what powdered sooth plays a second chance?

Follow flotsam to the horizon,

cross the bridge through gathering cloud.

Inhale motes and flutter-boats―

the balm of dusk explodes a single sigh.

tk/April 2014

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Refit

The walls are empty,

pocked with nail holes,

shadows of pictures―

a room without windows.

Too many years

since the piano was tuned.

Behind the sofa no longer

a good place to hide.

Laughter sleeps like stones

under shroud sheets.

I have forgotten

the dance, the lampshade.

I pull a chamois from my pocket―

not going over Jordan―just spring cleaning.

Dust smells new:  a scent of yellow.

The holes stare with tiny, hammered eyes.

I could use a shovel. 

tk/March 2014

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*Lee Plaza Hotel, Detroit, photo by Bonnie Beechler

spring purge

You drag

empty boxes

from a well-buried cellar

thump them one by one

up the dusty steps

gently

and methodically

slice through duct tape

with your silent box-cutter

fill each virginal square

with a kaleidoscope

of Shakespeare

Sibelius and light

render me gapeseed

excited like taking

a lot of vitamin pills

or drinking

too much coffee

butterflies

under my skin

spring on my forehead

like a high fever

Tess Kincaid

April 2011

Spring usually hits the Midwest like a hot Mack truck, but this year, I've quite enjoyed the gentle, luscious, foggy-soggy-wet-of-a spring.  I spontaneously bought a toy kaleidoscope last week, just like the one I had as a little girl. Spring fever. It must be.

April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.  William Shakespeare

eight tubes of lipstick and a buckeye

No woman I know 

could ever be a terrorist. 

Put a bomb in a Gucci bag? 

Oh, no way! 

 Joan Rivers

I'm not the only one who puts on a few extra pounds in the winter.  My handbag does, too.  Several years ago, when the extra gigantic bags were in, the average woman's handbag weighed nearly a back-breaking 7 pounds, 11 ounces.  Thank goodness, everything's a bit smaller now, including the electronics, but by the end of winter, mine's heavy.

This week was time for the annual spring purse purge.  The contents is dumped out and weeded through, like a garden. All kinds of odd junk, quite forgotten at the bottom of the bag, is excavated, including chopsticks, fortune cookie fortunes, eight tubes of lipstick and my lucky Ohio buckeye.

The sorted stuff went into my new waterproof vinyl spring bag, a great find on the TJ Maxx clearance rack for $24.99. It has all kinds of nifty zipper compartments and even came with a matching umbrella, even though I'm not really an umbrella using kinda girl.  It also has my main criteria; an over the shoulder strap, for hands free shopping.

I love my glow-in-the-dark plasticized beetle key chain. It makes finding keys at the bottom of a very large, dark bag a breeze. You can find them here.

I'm thinking balls are to men what purses are to women. 

It's just a little bag, but we feel naked in public without it.  

Sarah Jessica Parker, Sex and the City


What do you feel naked in public without?

Willow Manor Spring Purge

Have nothing in your house
that you do not know to be useful,
or believe to be beautiful.

~William Morris~

We often had yard sales at the manor in the spring, before the heat

and humidity of summer. Spring was a great time of year to have

one, after all the sorting and cleaning of the household closets,

dresser drawers, and kitchen clutter. The event was always a lot of

fun, as well, chatting with dozens of local folk who followed the signs

down to our little manor. Well, to make a long story short, I haven't

had a yard sale in years. It just seemed like too much work to put

one together. Is this my old age speaking? I do, however, have tons

of stuff desperately needing to be purged! Susan over at

29 Blackstreet has been in what she delightfully calls purgapalooza

mode and she has inspired me to do the same. I started today with

my closet and will gradually make my way through the house. For

the very first time, I've listed some items on eBay, starting with a

few handbags and on to other great junk that needs to be weeded

out. So, do keep an eye on my eBay listings. You can click on the

photo on my sidebar to take a peek. I'll be adding new stuff every

day or so during my Willow Manor Spring Purge.

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photo from Flickr