insects and two men on the bus

outside
particulary in my back yard
but else where as well

insects hum

each one i invite
and visit
investigate

two men on the bus
speaking in slightly too loud conversation

about going for a ride to drink a cup of coffee
catch a flick
ask each are you married
no
no
girl friend
broke up eh?

a little insect rides my knapsack
crawls the long grass that is arm hair
up the thin pale hair and down the otherside
we ride together
and also converse
but silently

i note the colour
and lightness
the delicate nature
the moving creature
as i become landscape
and amusment

the travellers
with the voices
are reading lines to a play
they once saw
or parts made up just for them
slow loud plodding
with silences that are like cement blocks

outside in the garden this morning
i see a snail dismount a flowering plant
up and over fluid and slow and quiet

black bird flys over head like shadow

underside of a leaf reveals a spikey guy
orange and black

and then one of the flyers comes by
translucent winged

small and large
fever dreams like alice

why dig for dinosaurs
when the exotics are all around
yet to be named tinies

where did the men part company?
how is it they came to meet on my streetcar?
what happened to my travelling companion that liked my arm hair?

summer happens
hot and thick and breezy
shade trees become refuge from hot sun

alive-ness in insects keep me in wonder
a ballet
a factory
a work camp
a ferris wheel

it is easy to travel
so easy with a patch of green

mind grazing + thank you

mind grazing, originally uploaded by Kim's Suitcase.

a picture of a mind that is grazing in a pasture with pastel sheep...

as a way to say thank you to all those that visited me on saturday for the small press book fair and as well to those that organized the day.

thank you

The Toronto Small Press Book Fair

Saturday June 13th, 2009
9am- 5pm

The Toronto Reference Library
(near Bloor and Yonge)

This is sure to be a fun day. My 10 year old daughter has been busy making lots of interesting things to sell at the show. Happily we shall share a table.

Please come by and say 'hi'.

Secret password 'pass the pumpkins' will get you a free button!

at home

at home, originally uploaded by Kim's Suitcase.

i have been having 'back issues'

had to miss work...
which was sad,
and working

but also became better friends with the tree outside my bedroom window.

and rekindled the activity of watching dust motes in the sun.

reading frida kahlo's biography lot's of back issues there
very appropriate reading while being confined to a bed

back and forth

core issues
must strenghten

having something physical hamper one
teaches a lot

being in physical pain
a very different perspective

i am feeling better now
but am humbled
and reminded
of living in a human body

drawing too
little things when i got as far as the backyard
dandylion flowers and wind blown twigs

frustration of course
limitation testing

accepting
and letting go

such big lessons
in small ways

back
and
forth

back
and forth

trusting
and
letting

things be
as they
are.

Pinky

Pinky , originally uploaded by Kim's Suitcase.

with a work in progress in the background.

Tabitha

Tabitha, originally uploaded by Kim's Suitcase.

Bear in the garden.

Bear in the garden., originally uploaded by Kim's Suitcase.

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