Paintings on Canvas
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the sky is rising,
the sky is rising
  it was a tall order, yes,
but she had her compass
 
suffer no fools, gladly   i assure you, we hold fast
to the mercy
 
the sixth letter came
after the first five
  (it's true mostly)
upon some reflection
 
lovely weather come sunday   seed 1-6
 
they live like laugh + logic 1-2   it matters in that
everyone matters 1-3
 
contranym I-II   she left her red shoes on the porch
for hope to find 1-3
 
she flies finally free   she counted out
the letters up to five
 
(safety in spirits) no one
knows how exactly
  oh why, why not
 
it means everything
to come back blue
  in any case, she had a soft landing
 
she finds her way as she goes along (light sight unseen)   the sky kept its promise
(and the blooms came 'round again) 1:1
 
the sky kept its promise
(and the blooms came 'round again) 1:2
  the sky kept its promise
(and the blooms came 'round again) 1:3
 
there's something good
in the water, too 1:A
  there's something good
in the water, too 1:B
 
there's something good
in the water, too 1:C
  there's something good
in the water, too 1:D
 
2008
it's a generous persistence
(her kissing mouth)
  there's more where that came from
 
see clear to the other side   it's no travesty to try your luck
 
untitled horizon, early evening   we cultivate cause
 
she danced the shimmy
and the shake
  there is a beneficent leaning
 
no way out but thru   she sang that sweet same
song she always sang
 
paying june to rob january   blanket rumors spun gold
 
ochre II   it's always half full somewhere
 
count up to ten and back again   from suit to memory
(largely affable)
 
it's a place like jump + prospect   untitled story no. 47
 
circus six seven   we can get there from anywhere
 
untitled blue (her night sky's desire)   free dreams, no waiting
 
she loves being loved   we planted the plum tree out back
 
there is always three (+more)   her songs came out in rhyme
2006 -- 2007
we listened, and
the wind picked up
  (i promise) she made it through
 
they knew what to make of it
this time
  there was also singing,
believe me
 
even with the map, they
wandered
  there is always yes
 
the illogic of division   when she counts herself in
 
portland landscape, c-5   this is where
some of it happened
 
it was like this, as it happened   if it then comes to this
 
red V   it could still be coming
 
rather than breaking, we hoped   even though this also mattered
 
they passed hand to hand   if it is mysterious
and there is no hesitation
 
it held (then opened)   they were not obscured
 
we fell in to it   two and then three
 
howl   the sky knows (its pleasure)
2003 -- 2005
queerly peared 2   mapping his cherries
 
red IV   queerly peared 1
 
3 downstream   ladder for magpie
 
river 33   river 41
 
green seven yellow five   orange red yellow
 
two green   river 9
 
orange pink two   green five
 
blue nine   orange thirteen or twelve
 
blue 1   red III
 
ochre I   green purple
 
red three and three and two   five fares four
 
circus pink orbit   collected blue and blue
 
collected green and yellow   purple count seven
2001 -- 2002
yellow two   yellow four three suns
 
white two   red three
 
red II   pink two blue three
 
orange three   orange sky
 
franky comes running   collected red three
 
between the boyfriends   a boy and her dogs
 
tattoo 5   tattoo 7
 
knee pain   grace calls god loudest
 
green twelve times twelve   blue green four
 
blue two   red I