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The Ties that Bind

 Posted on March 2, 2017|No Comments on The Ties that Bind

I needed forty feet of cloth-covered cord for the Prairie Skin in order for each side to have two ten-foot cords. I suppose I thought that if one took the trouble to make a wrapping cloth for a human body, it ought not to come unwrapped. So, I needed 40 feet of bias strips of cloth to make the cords. I printed more fabric: I cut bias strips: All I had to do was sew the bias …

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Buttons (Square 062, Sidney Draw)

 Posted on February 28, 2017|No Comments on Buttons (Square 062, Sidney Draw)

I think of Michael Hannon’s poem, “Ordinary Messengers”: Between heaven and earth I write one line.Sometimes another line follows:ambitious legions singing their way nowhere,or ordinary messengers carried deeper into human lifeby the music and its woman stepping out of her clothes,to the heartbeat of what comes next, what goes on for its own sake.The page after the last page, on which we do not appear. And that is part of the solace of repetitive labor—I …

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Silence has a presence

 Posted on May 19, 2015|No Comments on Silence has a presence

“Silence can be a planrigorously executed the blueprint to a life It is a presenceit has a history a form Do not confuse itwith any kind of absence”—Adrienne Rich Orfield Lab’s anechoic chamber, a three-dimensional sound “sponge,” is the quietest place on Earth. It is designed to keep out all external sound and extinguish all reverberation. When immersed in such silence, we hear our heart, breath and blood and conjure up music and voices that …

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