Thursday, November 28, 2013

Excerpt from 'Walking Swiftly' by Robert Bly


The heat inside the human body
grows, it does not know where to throw itself—for a while it knots
into will, heavy, burning, sweet, then into generosity, that longs
to take on the burdens of others, and then into mad love ...
from 'Walking Swiftly' in This Body is Made of Camphor and Gopherwood

Monday, November 25, 2013

Raymond Saunders

I saw four Raymond Saunders paintings at Duende in Oakland today.  Here's some more.