Dr. Fell

My brother and I went to the doctor to get shots when he was five and I was seven. It took a doctor, a nurse, and my mother to physically restrain him for that purpose.

I do not like thee, Dr. Fell

The reason why I cannot tell

But this I know and know full well

I do not like thee, Dr. Fell.

~ Anonymous

The Owl and the Pussycat

Hope this gives everyone a lift on this unsettling day. 

The owl and the pussycat went to sea

In a beautiful pea green boat.

They took some honey and plenty of money

Wrapped up in five pound note. 

          

                          ~ from Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussycat"

Old Man with a Beard

There was an old man with a beard

Who said it is just as I feared

Two owls and a hen,

Four larks and a wren

Have all built their nests in my beard

                         -Edward Lear

Looking In

Packed and in Transit

Today's post for Illustration Friday is dedicated to Katherine and Kate, who are both moving house.

Announcing Paper Nest

I've moved my art-to-go over to redbubble

Paper Emperor

Submission for Wordless Wednesday

Reflection

I have had the experience of studying a dragonfly which was toggling its head back and forth, apparently trying to comprehend the large mass which had obscured its light. This design is available in t shirt and print form at redbubble

Duet

Every Story tells a Picture

Flying

Cliques/Iko Iko

Old New Romantic

A new romantic from England HERE 

as submitted to Mixed Media Monday

Evolution

How far have we come? Don't make me THINK

Economy Tangle

Prettiest

I had finished this piece a couple of hours before I heard from my nephew Robert, who had remembered after a couple of months the song he showed me on YouTube. To see and hear the synchronicity, go HERE. 

Available in print and t-shirt form on redbubble.

Down-drowned

I had meant to do some pleasant image with an island (for illustration friday) but the political climate fills me with such dread. These lines from Wallace Stevens' Description without Place rise in my mind:

His mind raised up, down-drowned, the chariots.

And reaches, beaches, tomorrow's regions became

One thinking of apocalyptic legions.

The Travelling Crystal

From Laynie Browne's The Scented Fox

The Travelling Crystal

Sought

v.

There you stood at the top of the stairs, the found sentence or the found bedroom. Where had she placed the travelling crystal?

Dressed like a portrait, there you stood at the top of ordeals of every kind. I kept opening the page to 'morning and evening star,' and the refrain kept repeating, unneccesary noise harms the countryside.

Le Monocle de Mon Oncle

This week I concentrated on Wallace Stevens with a number of interpretations of his better-known poems.

The Idea of Order at Key West

Sea Surface Full of Clouds

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

The Rabbit as King of the Ghosts

The Pleasures of Merely Circulating

This is available in tshirt form at redbubble

The Odyssey: Awakening

The Odyssey: Kalypso

The Odyssey: Scylla

The Odyssey: Circe

The Odyssey: The Cyclops

The Odyssey: The Lotus Eaters

This is one in a series, you can see the others in the September 2008 archive (at right).