January 26, 2018 by drkottaway

silhouette

Light surrounded by dark.

My daughter at Easter, 2004.

For the Daily Prompt: silhouette.

January 21, 2018 by drkottaway

Women’s March 2018

My guesstimate is around 2000 people in Port Townsend yesterday, huge range of age, race and gender. Stand up, speak up, march and vote!

And my guess is LOW! The PDN estimates 4000: http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/news/thousands-turn-out-for-peninsula-womens-march-in-port-townsend/.

And more women to run for office. Bravo!

January 20, 2018 by drkottaway

morning front

I am walking to work more often.

The lovely blue early morning ridge in the distance is cloud, not a ridge. Look: behind the town lies the water of the Salish Sea. The sky is clear above, but across the Sound the land is socked in. A front of clouds, visible.

January 11, 2018 by drkottaway

Butterfly Girl Comes to Visit

For the Daily Prompt: carve. I think of skiing, bicycling. And I think of a piece of my heart. I wrote this in the early 2000s.

Butterfly Girl Comes to Visit

She is so beautiful with her wings
multicolored many splendored lights caught and multiplied
as she flutters

I freeze
I am an ogre
Huge and clumsy
I know from past past many times
Not to touch you
My rough fingers have brushed the tiny feathers from your wings
You cry in pain and your flight becomes erratic
My kiss is just as bad
Rough lips
If I move the wind of my passing blows you against a window
You fall stunned

I hold and crush
the box of feelings that can hurt you
Sorrow, anger, fear, dismay
Even fatigue turns my aura red
And scorches your wings

I hate to cause you pain

Fly butterfly girl
My baby needs me, my pager rings
My ogre husband stirs
The effort of holding still plain on his face
I can’t hold still much longer

Butterfly girl
Fly on home

January 9, 2018 by drkottaway

brilliant red

Taken over the holidays in Maryland.

For the Daily Prompt: brilliant.

January 8, 2018 by drkottaway

miss

I can’t duck my feelings: I miss the lake. I haven’t been there in three years.

For the Daily Prompt: forlorn.

January 4, 2018 by drkottaway

rays

January 3, 2018 by drkottaway

reveal 1

My photographs and posts last week were from Maryland and the art is from the National Museum of Women in the Arts: https://nmwa.org/, in Washington, DC.

Today I am going to start reposting the art, along with photographs of the names of the artists and titles of the work. The current show is titled “Magnetic Fields”, after the above work by Mildred Thompson, and is about black women abstract artists.