Sunday, April 24, 2022

Sunday Brunch

 




More than a pancake 

Revolutions

Spin in the orbiting moon

As Queen Jupiter 

Chooses

A champion of sorts

While keeping the whole joint

Captive

Knowledge upon knowing

Exactly how

We are all propped up 

The sow

The cow

The listeners now

And the barn

With the flies 

For eyes 

I see

As the hawk

Not married by blood

Never kin

To the boring

And bipedal 

As the party 

Was expelled 

Nearly hours into

A quasi negotiation 

Of voids

Which one is shinier 

I suppose 

I chose 

As I rose

And I flew

On heart

To take my cares

Elsewheres 



What is a mind without its ghosts…? 

If they aren’t entertained, will they not burrow further thru…?

Today I opened the maple syrup and poured out the demons and told them… if they play nice, I’d buy em a toy on the way home. 

When they agree, sighs of weights lifted, and sparks are given back. 

Hope this map helps,

X~ J aka Painter Le Fay



Friday, April 22, 2022

16 to Go!

 



Flights:

68:

Come home

Sweet soul

Lie to yourself 

To make passage

To the right

Never 

Awakening 

The lanyard 

Turquoise side

And bitten betrothal 

I am seated 

And await

Your return

Thursday, April 21, 2022

17 to Go…


Flights of the mind

Flights of the spirit 

Just like Charli Girl

I have moments in the day

Looking at the long lists

I find myself wandering off

In contemplation 

Of the lists

Of the 

List

List

Oh lists…

Anyway…

There are 17 poems left in the Flights collection…

And we had better get a move on, because good weather is coming and in the current state of things… I don’t actually know… but it’ll probably be trouble…???


67:

I know 

Before 

You know 

Tortured One

Envelopes 

Full

Of tens

And thousands 

You know

Reasons

Through dynasties past

Let us feast

Please 

And take harvest 

O’r seeds 

Pasted

To this 

Barren

Earth



X~J aka Painter Le Fay

Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Morning Glory



 

My usual sunny seat in the front room 

As I drink my tea

And my vitamin drink

And my lemon water…

Wearing the overalls that I hand sewed for two days straight 

So that they’d be the perfect Frankenstein 

Of two items of clothing 

That I found to be ill fitting 

But together as one

They are a hit 

In a holly hobby kinda way…

My lil floral fabric boots are waiting in the distance…


The oatmeal 
In the bowl
No added sugar 
But the raisins 
Get me through 
The pumpkin seeds 
Are my favorite 


The recycling bins
Being picked up 
As I write
Must be near 9am
Out with the old
In with the new
Like the fringe 
That frames me now
Hanging there
Like a MoonSpinner
All on the Mills



Is up on the YouTube 

More plants are just appearing…
There weren’t any when we moved here
Then we began clearing and added a few
Bushes
Etc… 
But the daffodils 
Are finding their way in…
Kind of like how the poetry comes in…



This came in before the first bite of oatmeal 

Was finished being chewed…


There’s still more word cakes from the Flights collection to be put out here… soon friends… soon… 


Until then… 

X~J aka Painter Le Fay


Thursday, April 14, 2022

Are Ya Coming Along For The Ride



 

We are about to make over all of this!!!


Hop in

We will try not to take the long way

And we both know 

Sometimes that’s really up to life 

Isn’t it 




This buddy Mr Mars

Went to a sleepover at the doctors yesterday 

He’s coming home tonight…

We will find out how things went later when we pick him up.




We have high hopes 

Of sprucing up the front porch- to resemble the pic above…

And we had luck getting someone to call us back about doing the job… 

We shall see, we know that the lead time on any projects like these take a while…

And it gives us time to gather some cash… 

It’s always nice when ppl do work for you and you can pay them… right

We have trim that needs tlc as well… 

Excited to possibly be in the position to have prices for projects before we have prices for damages… 


We also have a bump out for our kitchen idea…

Maybe having a sunny kitchen with room for a table? 

There are so many tweaks that should be in the works…

And the many steps to get to the end results should keep us busy… not to mention the 7 collections of poetry and 7+ manuscripts I’m developing…

Including the one based on my ancestors and the murder in 1890… oooo suspense.

And the bank of pictures to paint!

In the mean time…

We are lopping bittersweet vines and dead standing trees, making peace gardens with terraces and moving & propagating plants that we already have… 

There is a large list of furniture yet to move from our quarantine quarters creating & office and studio builds… 

Tired…

So tired that I’m kinda sad…

If I can get one thing completed… I think I’ll feel better.

The sun is out for now… 

I’m going to go sit in it…

You should too <3

And it’s our anniversary week… have you seen my make your own wedding posts? There here, in this haunted closet of words and pictures… somewhere… ;-)

~J








Tuesday, April 5, 2022

I Told Myself I Would Blog Today


Question is...
can I actually 
keep to a schedule???

We shall see...


I am 
Currently
getting my 
proverbial 
ducks in a row...

Maybe more Mentally 
than anything else.

And they are 
more like
Wild Horses
than ducks...

Until then
I pitter 
patter
tinker
and more

in 
the garden
in 
the dark
as my 
wounds
heal over
becoming 
newly
callused 
with ivy
and sunshine

after a hot bath
the sugar
sits 
even more sweet

as the cool side 
of the pillow
awaits

as this 
nourishment
calms 
the herd