Edgar Sawtelle

Bulgogi
Hangul letters

A public space

Summer 2006
To Aphrodite W.S. DI PIERO
Kewpie doll

Hereafter

Rain makes parting easy
When someone calls your name, you bring all of you into life.

The Innocence of time

from The National library of Poetry

Aventurine

Geoffrey Wolff

A Day at the Beach
Rejans
shoehorn
Sikorsky is not a place.
Delahaye

Chemistry to aid

Mothers

Another Marvelous thing - Laurie Colwin
It starts with a soon-to-be mother in high blood pressure.
What a rollercoaster birthing can be!
Hydralazine
Pitocin
Magnesium sulphate
Betadine

This will trouble me till I spit it out

Watching the promos of the coming soon movies I liked the sentence .. people bound by a single ribbon of asphalt.. regarding a crowd at an autorace track.

Rear window art

US Army sign
Two horses holding onto a downturned horseshoe

Michael Jordans
Flight into air - window length

A hippie jeep with stuff crudded on it like warts on the flying dutchman

Money Laundry

Its time to shift
the clothes from
washer to dryer

On opening the round
door
there is a stack of folded
dollars on the rim
rejected by the laundry machine
as are some soap bubbles

I take the money vended
dont even try recalling
where it was leftover from
With still some clothes in
I find yet another dollar

If kids knew

that body language speaks
they wouldnt scream
that their face voices
they wouldnt contort their vocals

Even in a veil
the eyes can tell

Still in dreams
they would have to shout
find their voices

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..little gestures often reveal our true selves..
- Crafting the personal essay, Dinty W Moore

Stone grinder

Two thick circular
slabs of stone
one on another
the top one with
a hole like a pot

In go the grains
jowar,wheat
lentils - bengal gram
with enough muscle power
move the vertical wooden handle
round and round
see the flour fall onto the sheet
in a cascade.

Healing stories for a hospital

Kathleen Hirsch in 'Mothers'.."As I sat in clinic offices staring at photographs of alpine meadows and gorgeous mountain vistas intended to help me think positive thoughts.."
I suggest pictures of a prism splitting white light into the constituent colors or of a rainbow or a window.
Corinna Vallianatos in 'A civilizing effect' that appeared in A public space:
the hospital had its own collection of art, which consisted of bronze frogs on bronze lily pads and black and white photographs of splints and stethoscopes.

The right tree

At phoenix Audubon, there is a tree in the backside with just enough leaves so as to not crowd the space, sky.

Carol Shields

The Stone Diaries
Nicotiana
Dianthus
Caragana is used as food by larvae of Dark Dagger. 'the Bumper book of nature' has a list of plants and the pupae that grow on them.
flour-barrel babies
Cyclamen
Mercerised

It starts with the blurb

The Memorykeeper's daughter
Long time ago when I saw this book at Borders, I wondered what it was all about.

Apgar
Do I see some insurance gaps right in the beginning?
A little into the hospital rumour gives a clue as to why Caroline might raise the child.