Aug 30, 2004 10:14
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even my mother the entirely unflappable Dame Valenti went through her 35 mm college girl phase. cut to three o'clock sunday afternoon-me-the most flappable of flappable creatures-examining with little hands ....
a secret silver box.
tiny square transparencies- of feathered locks and polyester lore. my father with a serial killers beard-ted bundyesque.
eyes that cast a jesus gaze for that woman behind the camera [.Jill Florence Valenti]
very green grass
colors that inspire an aw-ta-ma-ta-pea-ah alphabet
of POP
gasp, sigh. [a salmon sky]
daddy again, and again, my dad, father, a man, a handsome man,
a man i wouldn't mind holding in my focus.
alice cooper makeup and mother right beside, cheeks aglow, such an apple face.
doll child-all Cat Stevens love-soft hands, soft distractions. doing The Hustle.
and I can hear her telling him to "look away."
"baby" this and "baby" that.
green Vega, hood-top love, Murphy dorm, hockey pucks.
a pretty pair.
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/// [additions.]
yes:
•Holly Hobbie, Goebel, and the glass birds
•Track 3
•Halafax hospital and the hibiscus blooms [periwinkle and pink]
•handsome felines
•tactile maps
•sacred library niches
•grandstands
•brass sections and blue lightening
•emerson-jupiter-degrout
•smoothness
•rollerskates and Steve Perry
•4 a.m. Amtrack memories
•grapefruit sky
•brussels lace
conundrum conundrum conundrum (our new slang.)