write around the wilderness: blogging from bed

Sunday 17 January 2010

blogging from bed

Marie Laurencin - Portrait of Mademoiselle Channel

I saw this painting last week and was really mesmerised by the eyes of the woman. They look so full of emotion. A real stand-out feature of the picture. The colours are nice too, but those eyes! I wish I could write with as much emotion as Marie Laurencin could paint with a few brush strokes.

I have no justification for blogging from bed. But it's cosy and I can admire the hoovering I did yesterday and the picture I framed - an Art Nouveau exhibition poster from Musee D'Orsay bought last week - lovely.

While I am here I will read Luke Kennard's collection The Harbour Beyond The Movie which I bought yesterday from Preston Waterstones. Seems it has quite a good poetry section and my sadness about Borders can now be alleviated slightly.

I have also been reading Annie Clarkson's blog featuring today, her cat! I've always considered myself a dog person though I've never had one, and have had cats (!) but this post made me wish I had one pressed against my legs right now. Typical Annie blog, uplifting and thought inspiring even when she's talking about challenging personal stuff (except for the cat post which is out and out adoration for her cat) From what I've read she's in the right job.

Right now, I am very much in need of finding some angle for the prose poetry. I write it but with no idea what to do with it and if it's any good. I think I could tighten it up a lot more if it had some general direction. That's me, always a slave to purpose, in need of a solid route.

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The Coffee LadySunday, January 17, 2010
I'll never get over Borders. Some of them had coffee shops, you know.
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annie clarksonMonday, January 18, 2010
You're right this is a gorgeous painting, and then how surprised I was to see my name! You can borrow my cat anytime... and if you want to talk about prose poetry, give me a shout...!
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Someone said I only talk about things I don't like. So here's more that I do...

listening to stories of WWII, people getting all serious about minutes, apologies and agenda items, little triangle sandwiches with the crusts cut off, getting to know new people and hearing something new, scientific terminology, biscuit to chocolate ratios, people who dress to match their building, sharks breach feeding, little boxes, the type of people who still send cards, post-its that stay stuck, giant calculators, cars like re-entry capsules, motionless engineering (fans not in use, desk lamps poised at an angle but not switched on), Alpaca, orderly pin-boards, being too young to remember stuff, the geological time scale, mugs with little pictures hidden inside, 03:17 still time to sleep, paintings by John William Waterhouse and the static smell of newly opened magazines.

Things I like

Working, photos (of piglets in particular), The Richter Scale, laminators, sugar, rows of red cars, banana days, Haribo Tangfastics, chocolate limes and Rhubarb Custards, Raymond Carver, writing melancholia, black Bic mediums, things from Paperchase, Wolves, wilderness, Sicilian trains, rocks that look like witches, driftwood, forearms, lists, creative business cards, irregular shaped postcards, right angles in clouds, smell of new books, national geographic front covers, candid photos, the patterned panel on the back of a payslip, working unbroken for an hour, adding things to CV, fast bikes, the BBC pips, flowers in macro, toucans and other top-heavy birds (!), peanut butter and marmite (sometimes together), pink wine, the letter B, the number 12, Mars Midnight, stars viewed in Norfolk, Bangladesh, Esmerelda in all her guises, gadgetry, wizardry, rabbits, SilvaC rabbits, discovering a link - cause and effect, low-lying cloud, memory foam, Lindemanns Bin 67 (2007), old John Paul Gaultier bottles, You Have 1 New Message, collecting things, rescuing sick animals from the street, sweet potato with Boursin, did I mention rabbits?