For a few years now I’ve thought about setting up an Etsy shop to sell music, poetry, knits and other crafts. I coerced my husband Stephen to join me with his fine art and illustrations and thus, Broccoli Umbrella is born!
I’ve got my inaugural item, Mood Indigo Triptych, listed for $7. The three pieces – poem, CD, and tea – are all hand assembled, including all of the tea bags, by your truly.
“Tape” recorded live in September 2011
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Gotta dress up
And be real nice
Gotta play pretty
And be on time
(doobie do do, do do do do…
doobie do do, do do do do …)
snapping my fingers
in sunshine
oh, how strange
six months ago that
would’ve been nuts!
what a long winter
so homebound
and now the clover
so sweet, so sweet
The ground is water
and spits straight at my heel
at my back
and on the arrows of my elbows
It wishes for everything I have
to be sunken and of Atlantis
What I wanted once
can no longer be obtained
so I turn back
but am forgotten
The ground is water
and made of sweat
Sometimes I forget
all of the work that
got us here
our civilization
our Emerald City
like a crystal it shines
when there is light
like a crystal inside
we’re all it absorbs