SAFE HARBOR

Friday, September 28, 2012.  A quiet little harbor at moonrise.  Lights in the distance beckon you to visit, but who could leave a berth so still and calm?  Maybe tomorrow, when the light of day makes travel seem possible, adventurous and necessary.  But tonight, maybe just dinner and a conversation, and remembering among family and friends.

WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE

January 28, 2012.  Three discs on a gray expanse.  I am refelcted in the silvery surface, glowing with the rainbow colors.  The roadway is now more than what it is, it has become the matter between stars, the connection from one system to another, my pathway.

MEDITATION

April 9, 2011. Craftsmen so often create beauty out of utility. This fan was only meant to work, to fulfill its function. Did the metalworker know that the metal would rub in ways that would create a shimmering surface, while the rest became covered with the grime of air and fumes? Did he think about the star shape coming to rest randomly in different spots every day, always contrasting with the sharp and straight cross shapes, and all of it contained within the eternal circle. The pigeon guards sprout from the flat surface above. Another world, a different universe, a microcosm of a word filled with belching smoke and barren trees? And then the city reflected below. A living tree and life behind the windows of the apartment building. It all came together just by chance.

GRILLING

June 6, 2010. What designer thinks about grills on cars? And they think about it in so many ways. I noticed this one, and then started looking at all of them as they drove by or were parked on my street. None matched the inventiveness of this grille. Each bump changed in dimension as I moved around the front of the car. The sun bounced off the rises in the horizontal bars, and there is my hand, visible as a reflection. Would the owner only have offered to give me this beautiful piece.