VEXICON: In A Word

We roll on wheels of words and dreams.

- N. Scott Momaday, from his poem In The Telling

A freeway overpass crossing the river.

Painted over in hopeless gray within days.

Please Do Not Pick my Sunflowers ... 

Ukraine's State Flower...

Love and Resistance. Turmoil and clarity. Freedom and hope. ... and don't pick the flowers....  

Eugene Oregon Summer-to-Autumn 2022. 

EVERMORE, as seen/scene in Seasons 1-5 of VEXICON: 

VEXICON 5: MAY DAY. May 1 2022

https://tobecomevisible.blogspot.com/2022/05/vexicon-2022-may-day.html

VEXICON 4: Desire Anyway. December 31 2021

https://rockartoregon.blogspot.com/2021/12/vexicon-4-desire-anyway.html

VEXICON 3: Loves & Forebodings. July 2 2021

https://rockartoregon.blogspot.com/2021/07/vexicon-2021-loves-forebodings.html

VEXICON 2: Signs as signs as signals. January 25, 2021

https://rockartoregon.blogspot.com/2021/01/vexicon-2-signs-as-signs-as-signals.html

VEXICON:  Signs of the Times 2020. October 9, 2020

https://rockartoregon.blogspot.com/2020/10/vexicon-signs-of-times.html

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QUATRAIN

In my solitude

I have seen very clearly

things that are not true.

 — Antonio Machado

Full zero rising beginning end every thing in between

True gravity bathing pink contained gray yielding

Origin of the known universe unknown unborn the other

Attending yang honoring yin space tension grace

Images and notations, a morning walk downtown, October 17.

...

There is no city

But the city within.

No door, but the door

To simple wisdom.

We walk, dumb

As newborns

Into the tremendous and endless

Blessing.

 — Cynthia Cruz, from her remarkable poem The Hinge, in How The End Begins (2016).

Then and Then and Gone

Suspish appearing Winter 2020-2021

Summer 2021 Suspish repainted

Fall 2021 fishy gobbled up?  

Sharkies prevail, conjured by Suspish, a happy family?

September 2022, Sharks - wow - in place for a year;

here two hearts added!

October 2022, the puritanical powers who rule

with fog-gray wash eliminate Suspishous Sharks.

But... for how long?

On the banks of the Amazon, a tributary flowing from the south hills of Eugene to its confluence -- not as one would expect with the Willamette (Whilamut) River -- with the Long Tom River and Coyote Creek. The original marshlands, now dammed by Army Corps of Engineers as Fern Ridge Reservoir. Then, flow pulled by gravity, turning and finding the way north to an eventual mating with the Willamette, then north to the Columbia, then to the sea -- the maternal Pacific -- where all is embraced, dissolved, reincarnated as bright-turquoised insistent beings, swimming upstream to spawn.  

Remember: Suspish may be an artist imaginary -- but the teeth are real.

Further... Feature story about Suspish in Eugene Weekly, July 2022