"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." -- Rumi
Official spring is here, and with the unexpected summer-like warmth, the world has opened to us again, inviting us in, calling us outdoors. The heart throws wide its own doors and windows to the new scents and budding surprises. That hibernating part of us, curled in darkest dreaming, wants to stretch, to reach out and bask in the sunlight. To obey the invitation of birds, brook and breeze. To unfurl.
I took the photo on the 23rd. When I got up the next morning, I discovered my writer friend's Facebook post linking to Brain Pickings, with this quote as the opening. (Thank you Deborah Batterman!) Another invitation, another unfurling. Perfect.
Hi, Annie. Especially against all the neutrals of fading winter. Here everything is gearing up to leaf and blossom fast. A stretch of summery temperatures set it all in fast forward. Hope all is well!
I'm the author of Stirring the Mirror (2007) and Teaching Bones to Fly (2003), both from Bitter Oleander Press, and Domestic Weather (2004), winner of the 2003 Uccelli Press Chapbook Contest. My writing is anthologized in No Boundaries: Prose Poems by 24 American Poets, PP/FF: An Anthology, Graphic Poetry, Riverine: An Anthology of Hudson Valley Writers, and elsewhere. Additional author information and links to online work are in the sidebar. I'm also a visual artist. Except where otherwise noted, all art and photos are my work and may not be used without permission.
4/17/08: Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY, solo reading at 4:00 PM, free and open to the public
4/10/08: The Pedestal Magazine Poetry Reading featuring Edward Hirsch, with George Wallace, John Amen & CBK, West Side Y, The Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater, NYC, 8:00 PM
3/14/08: Hudson Valley Writers' Center Poetry Reading with Joshua Mehigan, Marc Straus & CBK, Second Friday Cafe, 7:30 PM
2/28/08: Artists' Salon: An Evening of Reading & Discussion with Riverine Authors, The Muddy Cup Coffee House, Poughkeepsie, NY, 8:00 PM
2/2/08: Stirring the Mirror Book Signing, Bound Off table, AWP Conference, NYC
1/12/08: Riverine Anthology Group Reading, Julia L. Butterfield Library, Cold Spring, NY
"Your task is not to seek for love,
2 comments:
That green is amazing, almost shocking!! It gets me every year, how brazen some of the Spring colours are.
Hi, Annie. Especially against all the neutrals of fading winter. Here everything is gearing up to leaf and blossom fast. A stretch of summery temperatures set it all in fast forward. Hope all is well!
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