Life Collage 4
Das Undbild
1919
Life's Images- wandering alone through gallery after
gallery of Matisse paintings all done in Nice, staring through my refracting
telescope at Saturn's rings, making love at Mardi Gras simultaneously to my
Jewish girlfriend and a student from the University of Maryland, eating Oysters
Rockefeller with my Aesthetics professor in New Orleans, teaching math to 13-
year-olds as they shot each other with spit wads, downing a stein of Bavarian
Beer high up in Mad Ludwig's castle on my 23d birthday, feeding a wild kangaroo on a deserted beach
in New South Wales, publishing a critique of two art shows, one in Savannah,
another in Atlanta, that raised enjoyable protest, celebrating a show of my
photographs in the SCAD gallery in Savannah, drinking cerveza and sleeping with
a Zapotec in Oaxaca, being knocked out of breath after falling off a swing in
the playground of my elementary school, looking like a snowman naked on a beach
in Westerland filled with tan Scandinavians near the border of Denmark and
Germany, seeing Forsyth Park deconstructing into the molecular structure of its azaleas, boating with my Mom on the canals of Amsterdam, sitting
by the fire near Mt. Pisgah dazzled by the glimmer of the Milky-way overhead,
being wheel-chaired into my hotel in Kyoto, ducking with my husband into the
Inuit Clan House near Ketchikan, Serving roast beef po-boys at
Billy's Home Cooking, mourning the murder of my best friend from a quiet little
house in Canton Ohio, sitting in a tavern in Mykonos with my brother watching
the men dance to Greek music, gasping for breath as my partner and I
nearly drown in the pool below a waterfall in Hawaii, having a beer with Jamie Cullum
at Jimmy’s Corner after his break-through performance at the Oak Room of the Algonquin,
completing my Master’s Thesis on D.H. Lawrence, chatting with Lawrence
Ferlinghetti at a wine reception at City Lights, and writing and writing…
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