Today's ArtSpeak: WOMEN poem features a piece by Gabrielle Münter that I've written on before, during 2020, my "Red" year.
Thanks to Catherine at Reading to the Core for suggesting I write after Gabrielle's work! I've selected a few more of her pieces I'll tackle later in the year.
Like many of you, I LOVE sending and receiving snail mail. So no wonder this piece called to me once again. Thanks so much for reading.
Speaking of mail, I recently received in my postal box this bewitching stitchery from our hostess/poet wrangler Mary Lee. I commissioned her to embroider a favorite line from the book I wrote with Dahlia Hamza Constantine, A Good Morning for Giddo. What a special keepsake... I LOVE it so much!!
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My pen darts down the page
a bullet train blasting past every crossing
How delight tempers
trepidation in this blur of words
So what if we crash
yes yes I’ll be there
You are my favorite destination
- Irene Latham
And here's the 2020 ArtSpeak: RED poem... "When I Write to You I Put on My Red Shoes"
In 2019 during ArtSpeak: HAPPY I wrote "The Letter" after a piece by Mary Cassatt.
That embroidery by Mary Lee 😍 Hooray for letters! Mary Cassatt's painting is marvelous. "You are my favorite destination" *happy sigh*
ReplyDeleteLove all your snail mail poems. Who can resist red shoes? Chiming in with T sighing over "you are my destination." Perfection! Mary Lee's embroidery is beautiful!!
ReplyDeleteOh, my goodness -- I LOVE the red shoe poem! Also, how did I not know you'd written a book with Dahlia?? She is a treasure! Just requested from the library!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you; snail mail is lovely. I have been wanting to write to my grandkids so they can have the excitement of finding something with their name on it in the mailbox. You have given me an idea to write them a little poem just for them and send it on its way. The embroidery is lovely. What a special keepsake to remember writing that book with your friend.
ReplyDeleteI so miss letters in the mail, both sending and receiving. It’s an entirely different experience to feel the paper and study the curves and bends of someone’s ink, put there for you. Makes me want to dig out my red shoes! : ) Thank you for sharing your gorgeous words (whether hurried and blurred or painstakingly gentle)!
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