She was a music teacher and she read a lot. She was interested in science and unexplained phenomena, including the possibility of extra-terrestrial life. She tried to teach me to read music and play the piano, but I never learned. The photograph is a view of the Mississippi River from the porch of the house she lived in before she moved to the condo. I spent a lot of my childhood in that house, on that porch. She always rose early.
Her lack of sleep was a point of pride. Once, in winter, when I was a toddler, walking from her house to her car in the dark so she could drop me off with my parents on her way to the elementary school where she worked, I asked, Why do we have to get up in the middle of the night?
She lives and works in Los Angeles. This is a list compiled when titling paintings. Nectar reward — Truck exhaust Spread illusion Air breathing As if cooking could Nectar reward The unopened act Modulation Water for life the triple yoke The twinning theme To all men one body each unsettles the obvious emptiness is energetic their clod of earth powerful bodies giving their whole strength to the labor of holding on disturbed equilibrium even his failures cease-less serpentine quiver isolating restless clues of up-and-down aerial detachment vanishing pole of attraction stride into the present humorless pathos craving, contrition, defeat, stir the heart up into fellow feeling fingering nerves significance in the present in pliant matter large nature that of a modeler posthumous fortune medium in fluctuation, a churning sea.
But within a few hours with his blue tic pedigree, he learned and began to fit in. A certain bark would get us all running in the dark with flashlight beams darting about helping us see our way, going full speed towards the dogs, with branches hitting us in the face. And then there it was, a coon high up in a tree with the dogs circling the trunk, jumping and yelping. There was only one gun, a. One of the boys, whose turn it was, aimed and fired.
The dogs kept barking as the coon fell to earth. Then everything got quiet and the dogs went off in search of another. I left after three coons. The boys got seven that night and none of them came to school the next morning. I marked them absent from my class.
