buckskin_woman
cr0wl i want to know the old buckskin woman
walking with a slow stoop
she is on her way
but has already been there
about to return as someone different

her hat is strategically worn
like a moon watching the earth
her shirt it was apricot

she is a cartoon
cut from a comic
and glued to the earth

i have seen her on my trip around the sun
i think she has a peony garden
and tulips
too numerous to know how many
colors and kind

i think she reads dorothy parker
and anne sexton
i think she takes polaroids of cuckoo clocks
and has a tumblr blog where she posts them
along side poems like this:

"see with your eyes closed
and walk into the ground
what is there is here
and what you know
is what you don't know"

i think she watches godard and fellini films
but her favorite is "the bicycle thief"
i think she drinks red zin
i think her favorite food
is snap peas off the vine
she opens the pod and there they are
all five of them together

i think she sells her art
to pay her few bills
she makes mazes out of cardboard
and cut and paste
these little paper worlds that
save her soul

i think she has a porch
she's made into her own
and she's strung up chinese lanterns
lit by electric lights
she sits at a glass table
and interviews herself
with an analog hand held voice recorder
she uses two voices
sometimes three

i think she likes to travel by train
and rides in the sleeper car
so she can invite
strangers turned into friends
to her happy hour
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lg i absolutely love this

a portrait made of words....
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cr0wl thank you crowli 100703
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