This girls art: December 2009

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

I'm back again

Wow, the whoas of computer problems. I have been out of commission for about a week or more. In that time i bought a new car and have been bearing this cold weather. I've been limiting any Christmas shopping. I bought my mom and bill's mom something and of course bill. But, that is it!! I bought a 2000 Toyota Camry. It is sooo nice. I'm not used to a nice car. My old Toyota tercel served me well. It will now serve someone else well. I'm a total believer in Toyota's.. LOVE THEM. I'm dying my hair right now, waiting for the 30 min to pass. I gotta get that grey right outta my hair...... I'm going redder than I'm used to, I'll see how it goes. Now I'm off to catch-up on my fellow bloggers.

Surface Hunting by Claudia Emerson

You always washed artifacts
at the sink, your back
to the room, to me, to the mud
you tracked in from whatever
neighbors's field had just been plowed.
Spearpoints, birdpoints, awls and leaf
shaped blades surfaced from the turned earth
as though from beneath some thicker
water you tried to see into.
You never tired, you told me, of the tangible
past you could admire, turn over
and over in your hand-the first
to touch it since the dead one that had
worked the stone. You linedbookshelves
and end tables with them; obsidian,
quarts, flint, they measured the hours you'd spent
with your head down, searching for others,
and also the prized hours of my own
solitude-collected, prized,
saved alongside those artifacts
that had been for so long lost.

any person with partner whose passion is arrowhead hunting, knows the meaning of this poem.