Posts by keokee
Night Girl
Night Girl, speaks of all the things I never did and now will most likely never choose to do. In the last third of my life I have finally discovered that I can only be who I am, I am finally laying aside all the lifetimes I had imagined bringing to the one that has…
Read MoreWaiting For Raven
Waiting for Raven is about the hours, days, weeks and months when I wait patiently for my loved one, an adult child who has schizophrenia, to appear for a short but remarkable moment as the person I raised and became friends with.
Read MoreAbdication
Abdication is about letting go of self-identifying as a mother and wife. At times I see with great clarity how those roles no longer serve my family and that the nest if not literally is figuratively empty. I like those times because everything seems as if I have walked into a freshly washed world of…
Read MoreNight Passenger
Night Passenger is the stillness that comes from watching other things move on and pass me, leaving behind scraps of memories, hopes both filled and unfulfilled linger like affable strangers and gracious specters
Read MoreEvery Day Angels
I have come to a place recently where I feel that idealism no matter how soft or restrained is the only path to correcting civilizations many wrongs. Although there may be hordes of people who no longer believe in the power of pulling together and sacrificing for the good of all, there are small clusters,…
Read MoreThe Confession
The Confession came to me during a time when it seemed clear that our country was on the brink of completely splitting between self-interest and compassion. It started as a huge dam bursting under the pressure of turbulent water. Gradually, I tamed it and my inner anxiety by observing the chaotic waters, until I started…
Read MoreWitness
Witness is a painting that speaks of all my mentors who have departed but have left me behind with their visions of art and life that included their hopes for me. I love them all for what they helped me to break up so that I could move on into my life as a mature…
Read MoreThe Uncertainty Of Gender
For a year or so, my eldest child came to live with me in the woods while transitioning her gender. During her stay, she noted the phenomena of figures between the trees. Many of them became like bogeymen in her psyche. We fought her troubling entities side by side. After that time, I began to…
Read MoreThe Good Book
The forest in the Pacific Northwest with its tall trunks, diagonal branches and slanted light has m, at times, seeing figures among the trees. My worries and concerns and inner dream world can create a sense of people and animals shimmering in and out of sight. The somber man in black who defies the rules…
Read MoreGiant Upon The Plains
Extraordinary weather phenomena, such as tornadoes are clearly terrifying, especially out on the Great Plains where you can see them moving as colossal towers between earth and sky, unpredictable in their wild path, extemporaneously destroying what had seemed so certain and solid. I find in the terrible reality of the ever more forcible storms a…
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