A Wish

There was never a sweeter flower grown

than underneath your care

I wish I were a flower

that could spend my mornings there

And with a sunny look,

your eyes could wipe the tears away

From many emptier gardens

and more melancholy days. . .

- Jan. 12, 1987, A.D.

Snow

It blankets everything, doesn't it?                    What?

The snow

It makes you feel so warm

even though you're so cold

It's softer than a dove's feather

and brighter than the moon

on a clear Autumn night

So bright. . .

And silent as death during sleep,

creeping through the body

making every finger numb

to the hum of the energy of life.

Death is quiet in the snow

like a movie without sound

I scream, but my lips are frozen

Doesn't anybody hear?

I feel the snow blanket

my body and my face.

I fade away. . .

- Jan. 9, 1987, A.D.

Sketch '87

Cool Wimin

Annie Lennox

Kate Bush

Rickie Lee Jones

Patti Smith

Lorie Anderson

Cher

Ntozake Shange

Sade

Whitney Houston

Joan Armatrading

Crass

Pretenders/ Chrissie Hynde

Donna Reed

Ingrid Bergman

Meg Tilly

Yoko Ono

Anne Sexton

Sylvia Plath

Linda Ellerbee

Tina Turner

Julie McCoy 

Georgia O'Keefe

Judy Garland

Diane Keaton

Nastassia Kinski

Siouxsee (and the Banshees)

Nina Hagen

Excene Cervenka

Ursula Le Guin

Billy Holliday

Simone de Beauvoir

Emma Goldman

Sissy Spacek

Jenette Kahn

Nichelle Nichols