TULIP ASKS HER SHADOW TO DANCE

White Tulip dresses 

for the dance her sisters gone 

hours ago joined and 

left the dance

tossed their pretty 

dresses

of many colors faded

wrinkled

upon the darkening 

ground spent

dance partners

seeking fresher 

blossoms

alone

she fluffs her 

swan skirts of waning light

asks her Grandmother

Moon who will 

dance with her in 

this late hour?

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17 BREATHS: Inhale.Exhale

A FLYiNG HeARTS PRoDuCTioN with

Original Poetry & Photography by Artist-Poeta Julie SuZaNNe BroKKeN

with Original Music by Guitarist-Producer Larry Mitchell  

"Julie's unique mediation blends poetry, photography, and music into a lovely homage to the seasons of the southwest. Her words and images visit and revisit scenes and ideas, allowing our awareness to evolve and deepen with each pass. Take 17 breaths. Then take them again. You’re safe in Julie’s peaceful world." 

-- Dee Bruno Cohen, poet & photographer

17 BREATHS: INHALE.EXHALE 

is an assemblage of 17 haiku

17 syllables each x 2

deconstructed & reconstructed

inhaled & exhaled from of the original 17

into one poem of 17 x 2 stanzas

one meditation on 4 seasons

x 2 cycles x photography & music

artists x 2 each contributing x 2

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CHAMISA

October 24th... pre-sunset

in the South Domingo Baca Arroyo

embraced by this quietly charismatic

community of chamisa...

and again on November 1st...

a poem is in progress...  there is much to learn about chamisa!

... the chamisa of the rabbit bush variety (Four-Wing Saltbush is also called chamisa.)  Chamisa is so much more charming than Ericameria nauseosa, rubber rabbitbrush, gray rabbitbrush... and rabbit bush, which I like, too.  In American Spanish, it is also spelled chamiza, chamizo, from Spanish meaning brushwood, kindling, from Portuguese or Galician chamiça, from chama flame, from Latin flamma

Perhaps that is more than you want to know about Chamisa, but I am a curiouser & curiouser Alice... and follow many a curious thought under the chamisa and down it's rabbit holes, digging deeper if the hole isn't satisflyingly deep enough.  Yes, a misspelling, but I like how it embellishes my meaning... satisFLYingly!  Falling, flying... sometimes tis the same thing, no?  

Chamisa is also a surname, a given name, and a flower essence remedy... all with meanings the have resonance.  To be continued...  xoxo, julie, de losChamisas