December Flying Carpet

In December the Flying Carpet 

REFLECTED

back over the wondrous year of 2011.

"Binding up the brokenhearted"

"Floating and edging towards the glimmer"

"Diners... orchid handkerchiefs... windup cars..."

"The destiny of a lifetime in a glimpse"

"Muse-jumping hummingbird mornings"

"Bimulous Plaza  nights"

"Hovering memory cobwebs"

Special Thanks to all of you 

who have flown with me this year

and

Blessings in The Year of the Dragon 2012

November Flying Carpet

In November the Flying Carpet bought a ticket 

 at the CLIFFS OF INSANITY AMUSEMENT PARK

and rode these rides... 

"The Scared Silly" with Katarina

"The Mysteries of Roswell" with  M#@QQT

 "The Batteries Not Included" with Carl Hungus

"The Crazy Wave" with Fuzz

"The Bed of Doom" with Swiss Cheese

"The Tilt-A-Whirl" with the Eyeball Kid

 

Flying Carpet tips a fool's cap to The Spirit of Levity

October Flying Carpet

In October

the Flying Carpet

lived the High Life

and enjoyed

the acme of autumn.

Braking for the occasional Pegasus,

 

the Flying Carpet was rarin' to go

 

to The Classical Gas Museum in Embudo, NM

and Garcia's Fruit Stand near Velarde, NM.

Braking for migrating cranes,
the Flying Carpet made a splash landing at
Bosque Del Apache Wildlife Refuge,

got its Outsider on at
Pop Shaffer's home
south of scenic downtown Mountainair,

and mourned vanished culture
at the ruins of Abo and Quarai
in the fading blaze of October.
.

Thanks to Susan-san, Walt, Donna, Zack, Lana, Dana, and Linda
for zooming with me on the carpet!

September Flying Carpet

In September 

the Flying Carpet "sailed off through night and day"

 and went to "Where The Wild Things Are"

(a.k.a. the Penland Instructors Retreat near Asheville, NC)

 

107 past instructors 

"made mischief of one sort and another"

  

The Wild Things "roared their terrible roars"

"and gnashed their terrible teeth"

"and rolled their terrible eyes"

and the "Wild Rumpus" was never ending

Then the Flying Carpet "waved goodbye to the Wild Things"

and packed its suitcase

(a little tricky to keep the suitcase attached to the carpet)

"and sailed back over a year

and in and out of weeks

and through a day"

at Cerrillos

(the land that time forgot and Mary Jane remembered)

and into "the night of" its very own wall to wall...

August Flying Carpet

In August
The Flying Carpet
morphed
into a welcome mat
and
lounged around
all month
while many many feet rambled across its supine form.

 Resplendent strangers and “heartist” friends came to see
MUSE,
a biennial show of
collages

  

journals

                                                                  

bundles

                                                                 

assemblage

and photographs

running away

from home on August 31st
The Flying Carpet
swooped
past
Borrego's Bootery,
Audra's Lil' Hair Place,
Mr. Cash Wants to Pay You!
Lifescapes World Travel Spanish Cafe
and the 

Maestes Family Home

skedaddled
past the crags
of Georgia O'Keefe's playground ...
The White Place...
(bleached bones of shipwrecked desert pirate ships)

and eerie abandoned mosques

and
jounced
    along the rumbling suspension of disbelief 

on 13 excruciating miles to
    The Monastery of Christ in the Desert
    past Abiquiu
and beyond the beyond

(tire shards... “alligators" on the road
    as the chromatic harp serenades)

cruised
past the Lovin' Oven
and the Saints and Sinners Lounge
and
curled up and dozed
dreaming of September breezes...

“if it's weird, you know it's human.”--Peter Sellers


Special thanks to "The Birdman of Alta Vista"

Photos by Zack and Gail