Awakening

Am awakening to myself
perhaps for the first  time;
like a small child
I get stronger
with  each passing day
while I morn
what I missed
my life blossoms:
what sort of deal
is this
to be old
with all those  scars
still there
like so many fish hooks
and bait wire
twisting together the gashes
but risen somehow
sewing the skin whole
breathing air
no longer submerged
knowing finally how to cross
the water/air [...]

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Swirly Notebook People

by Erik Kaye
copyright 2008/2009
watercolor on paper

Note: Erik is a fellow traveler living in Chigasaki, Japan with his wife Corinne Sutter-Kaye where they teach English. His expertise as a painter and wilingness to delve into humor and the black night of the soul as well as the heights of elegance and nuanced feeling continue to amaze [...]

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Green Horse

by Elizabeth Parashis
copyright 2009
acrylic on paper

Elizabeth Parashis will be the featured artist along with Loie Johnson, featured poet, Thursday August 20th at the Stone Griffin Gallery, 411 E. Campbell Ave., for Thursday Gig. For more info and pix (plus poem) see below.

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Thursday Gig Aug. 20: Parashis & Johnson

THURSDAY GIG’S
Art & The Spoken Word
presents
Artist: Elizabeth Parashis
Poet: Loie Johnson
Open Mic follows
Thursday, August 20, 2009
6:30 – 9:30 pm

STONE GRIFFIN GALLERY
411 E. Campbell Ave., Campbell
Please look at directions below
This is a Pot Luck BYOB, Soft Drinks, Water event
Donations of $1 would be appreciated
If you can’t bring food or donate, come anyway : )

“Blue Horse” by Elizabeth [...]

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Wild Ox

by Bea Garth, copyright 2009
gouache painting

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