5.08.2006

on turning 42

"raspberry phosphate"











41

raspberries.
late summer, early autumn.
fruit, easily grown unless cut back

phosphates, effervescence.

41
more self-conscious
more humble
less doubt
more doubt

wrinkles, pain, hope,
truths.
mis-truths, self-truths

knowledge.
one's body, one's Self.

awareness
knowing strength, feeling weakness
the world

personal histories -- raspberries and phosphates

41
celebrate friends, celebrate love/s
mourn friends and mourn love

humility.

decisions no longer ours to make...

back to a summer of raspberry and phosphates

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(tami sloan tsark 1/27/06)*


*this piece was created for the 40x40 show currently at pier 39 theatre Q, on display through 7/11/06

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