February 1, 2017

Here is a beaded hanging from 2005.  I did post this in 2007, but it seemed to have become appropriate for the situation of the many many refugees who are fleeing areas of conflict now.  I called the piece Child of War. 

January 31, 2017

Here is another of my unsolicited comments on what our country is going through.  It is based on a poster I made in 2014. 

I was also struck this morning by the coincidence that my blog (and business) is called Weeping Crow Studio.  I do feel like weeping with concern and alarm at what appear to be threats to a way of life which isn't perfect, but is something precious.

January 30, 2017

I've decided to use my blog to express my thoughts and feelings about what is happening to our country.  That includes some poetry I have written.  Mostly I haven't written political poetry, but it seems called for at this time.  This one was inspired by a news  clip about Aleppo.

As it rains on a street in syria

The people move slowly; in cold weather clothing.

They might be strolling except each adult carries a duffel bag;

Some balance sleeping bags on their heads; 

each child wears a back-pack except one very small child

who wears a pink hat with a pom-pom.

It’s clear they are together; but they spread out from one another. 

In the rubble that spreads to the horizon

shattered apartment buildings reveal their bones.

The images are on TV and computer screens,

many showing the violence as it happens

taken at grave danger for those who send them.

I witness these refugees and feel as helpless

as if they were fleeing centuries ago instead of now,

this very day toward America’s closing doors.