Wednesday, May 31, 2017

May Flying Carpet 2017

The Light in the darkness  
Zooming in April through  
rural France, Barcelona, 
Lisbon, Sintra and Paris  
has left even The Flying Carpet  
a bit breathless for the last month.  
In La Chartres-sur-le-Loire  
where light and shadow coexist


 Sunbeams are focused 
and imagery magnified
through translucent glass filled with water
in a a brocante that looks like all my dreams


In Montmirail...
spiderwebs capture dawn in the graveyard
 

windows capture iridescence in the gloaming


In Vendome
prisms sparkle in The Church of the Trinity 


In Sintra at Monserrate
light on white on white
 

In Lisbon at Pavilhao Chines
toy airplanes swirl around the ceiling light
 

In Giverney 
 waterlilies luminesce against dark water


light floods the incomparable YELLOW kitchen


Frank Gehry's ship navigating
dimly lit clouds 
at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris
 

If only time would multiply like these reflections
 

 Many years of thanks to Zack













Monday, May 1, 2017

April Flying Carpet 2017

In April The Flying Carpet
hovered in astonishment
over Barcelona

Bizarre!!!
Whacko!!!
Inventive!!!
Organic!!!
Transcendent!!!
In Barcelona where the Dragon reigns supreme
Amidst the feral parrots
the Flying Carpet flew up
to meet the natives at the Palau de la Virreina



flew into candy shops 
like time capsule stage sets


flew past the kindly doorman 
into the elegance of
Casa Sayrach

 

 flew in and out the gargoyles
of the ancient cathedral of Barri Gòtic


flew surfing the waves of Gaudi's La Pedrera


flew trippingly amidst the bejeweled facade of Casa Batló


with its idiosyncratic quirk 
of costumed actor tour guides


and its shimmering sea of stained glass


flew into the molten majesty
of Gaudi's unfinished dream Sagrada Familia


 ascending into the heavenly light



Gratitude boundless