but twice I sang
as John Cusack held his arms
up to my car stereo
so Peter Gabriel could transform
that simple route
into a path of endless lights
©Erin Croley
nothing was said
but twice I sang as John Cusack held his arms up to my car stereo so Peter Gabriel could transform that simple route into a path of endless lights ©Erin Croley
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she refuses
to pick vegetables in the rain because "I am not from Oregon anymore" the difference of twelve months is too much today but she is happy to share our harvest ©Erin Croley this person I keep
on repeat who breaks and then bends must be a ghost. the reflection is too distant and old to be me. ©Erin Croley I've spent the last few days watching my kids chafing their dream, literally. Hours on the sand and in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of North Carolina, my two kids have built sand castles, collected sea shells (and a few pistachio shells), learned to jump over waves and ride them to the shore, and swallowed lots of sea water. They've also developed chafing sand burns on their arms and legs, not realizing it until they hit the stinging bath water after a day of pure, pure joy.
no matter the blue skies
this thick air steams and steals the day from its potential... so we wait for the stolen lights of dusk to revive us ©Erin Croley show me sculpture becomes stage pretend animal parades for applause- he sweats and smiles, sweeps arms and leaps on to the next exhibit show me again a better way to appreciate art ©Erin Croley Inspired by an afternoon of Playing With Our Art at Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis, Missouri...
someday
my little man will be an old man with a single eye on his journey and the other on this moment I try to be who he needs now and then ©Erin Croley her demeanor
is so demure life a freight train eyes rumble into yours softly listening for what you neglect to say she asks ©Erin Croley a divided sky
and dark thunder near alert us to the coming storm but we are still mostly Portland so will wait for lightning strikes to shelter ©Erin Croley |
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