Today is my first official blog event on this particular site and boy what a day it was! We've had this problem in our house where we don't have a dishwasher and too many adults with too little time to do dishes. So we had a friend come to try and fix this dishwasher and since the attempted repair we have discovered a constant leak in our sink pipe (that has supposedly been fixed a few times now), no hot water for three days, and today a flooded kitchen. We know he's trying to do a good thing for us but I'd prefer the dishes! That was a mini rant of today. For those who may read this blog, its a pointless account of my day to day life more for myself than for you. I will introduce my self with a self portrait in words (its not just a painter thing :))
Self Portrait
Circles remain enlightened in weight on feet
gages for how far we've come
prancing like dancers on precious stones and beehives
the moon rises to a lonely song of night
me asleep by the side of tidal waves of anxiety
with moral obligations to the right
and cold hands, like cold feet,bring hesitation to wrap myself around absolution in your sky
stars shone bright like their dying a million years in our past
still savoring their life through our tubular and angled glasses
reflecting smiles like the laughter of little children on your knees
growing older with every season
like flowers that always wither when winter comes,gone again with sun
a reminder that this too will end in warmth
© Valerie Long
