July Flying Carpet 2025

 In July
The Flying Carpet 

appreciated

 The Sacred Datura…

vespertine flowering
moths enticed

smelling the scent
through the window at night
so many dreams

flowers are
an amusement park
for bees

The Spiral's favorite flower

a sudden breeze

datura unfurls

ephemeral

 nocturnal
one night stand

June Flying Carpet 2025

 In June

 the Flying Carpet

experienced

Pride and Protest

Santa Fe Style…

It was never like this

in Jane Austen's day!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

May Flying Carpet 2025

 In the midst of a whirling world…
The Flying Carpet envisions stillness:

as still as a blessing

as still as memory

as still as rust

as still as a sleeping Buddha

as still as wood awaiting fire

as still as a monumental boulder

As Still as strength

as still as a cemetery spiderweb 

at dawn

as still as stone garden raindrops

as still as the center

of a cactus mandala

April 2025

 In April
The Flying Carpet
Contemplates the Egg

Psanky Hanky Panky
Rieke Style

Ukrainian Easter Eggs
at Susan’s Christmas/
Easter/ Valentine Shop

(We hold the people of Ukraine
close to our hearts)

Quail Eggs like tiny planets
at the Farmer’s Market

Eggs in the studio

Rhea, Emu, Ostrich

Boa Constrictor

Brancusi explored essential form
and called his egg sculptures
The Beginning of the World

Brancusi's studio
recreated in Paris

As we contemplate perfection
in an imperfect world,
at times we revel in
the unexpected…

Stick Insect eggs
photographed by Levon Biss
remind me
of ancient Chinese medicine bottles!

April 5th Flying Carpet

 
An extra pre-emptive swoop!

Desperate Times call for Desperados
and they were there

at the Government's Round House

in Fanta Se
on April 5th
protesting in Santa Fe Style

Sign not photographed
Truth Decay
(a dentist?)