Words for Death

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Late last year
Annie Franklin
died
at the tender age...
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Lifestar landed in the burning grass
But there was no need for a rescue flight.
It got sixty full seconds on the evening news.
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On the side of the road
near the spot
where she
joined the choir invisible
(bought the farm,
bit the dust, paid the piper,
shat the bed)
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is a small white cross
festooned with plastic flowers
of every hue
(and some you can't imagine)
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On the cross
are these words:
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You are loved
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El Día de los Muertos está viniendo pronto...

Déjelos Comer Las Uvas

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...and another Halloween digital ACEO

Two more small digital collages

The image on top is my second digital tarot card, The Magician. I really like the way this one came out.

The image on the bottom is called "Raven's Doubt"; it's something I just did for fun to join in with the current Halloween ACEO (card-size) art craze on my eBay lists.

Life is Funny

This is another current eBay auction titled "Life is Funny". This is a 4" x 6" digital postcard that I did for the CaaT (Complimentary Art and Things) eBay group for a theme on clowns/jesters/circuses etc. I always seem to find the dark in the most cheerful things.
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I

It occurred to me that it's been a while since I put any of my art on my blog. This piece is currently on eBay. It's entitled "I", and is an ACEO (card-sized) piece I did for the Nibblefest Art Contest (NFAC).

A different note...

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For those of you who read the last post, here's the good news. I had been worried about a gradual increase in pain in my sternum, and had planned to tell my doctor at my scheduled treatment today. Before I could mention it, he asked if the wisdom tooth I'd had a root canal in (to minimize the risk Zometa treatment causes, of osteonecrosis of the jaw) had pretty much settled down, because he wanted to put me back on the Zometa. Then he asked if I'd had an increase in achiness in my breastbone. He said that many women notice that if they go off the Zometa. So the increasing pain that I feared meant that the cancer was worsening may in fact be simply because the normal reforming of bone just slowed down with the withdrawal of Zometa. I felt somewhat reassured. I resumed treatment with Zometa in addition to the Herceptin today.

And I had an amazingly creative time as I sat in the infusion room. I wrote a poem that will be part of a breast cancer-themed artwork, and also wrote a poem about a significant experience I had several years ago, which can be a stand-alone poem but which I'll also probably put with an image, possibly an altered vintage postcard. Here it is.
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For the She-Wolf and Her Pups

PUTNAM and THE WOLF - Plaque at Wolf Den
Following her tracks through one day and night in the early snow of December 1742 to the Connecticut River and back, the early settlers of this region here discovered the den of the she wolf that had for years devastated their flocks and had so far eluded all attempts at capture. After all other methods had failed, when both servant and dog held back, Israel Putnam, 70 of whose sheep had been slaughtered, at 10 o'clock at night, with a rope tied to his feet, first with a torch, again with a musket, entered this cave, and by the light of her angry eyes, shot and killed the marauder, and entering - a third time, dragged forth the body of the last wolf in Connecticut.

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"HE DARED TO LEAD WHERE OTHERS DARED TO FOLLOW"

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On a gray day

in November

We walked the rocky trails

by Mashmoquet Brook.

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I saw witch hazel

thin, long petals like yellow ribbons

shivering in small bursts of breeze;

armies of chattering chipmunks

calling, distracted,

skittering over the she-wolf's den.

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I heard low growling

that no one else could hear.

Perhaps what Firewalker

of the North said

is true.

"You walk

with cat spirits, May",

he said.

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Apart, I prayed.
Forgive me, young ones,
I mean you no harm.
Forgive me.
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................................---May Terry
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