Caroline Gerardo's Blog, page 23

I Voted Sticker

Election DayAmerican Drama denouementCharacters doing tragedy / comedynoble actionsmurder wordsheroic verse ofAeschylus. Plots, ludicrous charges,language of media,turns off audienceasatyra shrewachorus of coyotes
Wear your stickerI votedthat's all you getTonight come togetherthe play is done.

Caroline Gerardo copyright November 8 2016
I devote prayer today for United States to bond together and fix our country no matter the outcomes


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Prayer for Pony

Prayer for Pony Poisoned 
Ancestor of RiverI am Cree.
"Trust technology."What BP?
King of Wind Fire In Water
renege Laramie
recall slaughter.

Cool poll hunting horse
sip benzene.
poison in graves,
Corexit anoints clean.

Quarters for gaming,
Sonoco pray with me
toxins leak,
land lives, see.

Bulldoze grandfather,
blast ends hearing,
chant #NODAPL
pipeline disappearing.

Hills sacred
pony I love
buckwheat wine
mourning dove.

Caroline Gerardo copyright November 7 2016

The Handmaiden Review

The Handmaiden
I saw The Handmaiden last night. Chan-nook's film still has me thinking. A great emotion when a film stirs. 

The story is plotted upon from Welsh novelist Sarah Water's book Fingersmith. Water's novels are wonderful in their own right with period details that will keep that book in hands until the end.Chan-nook changes points in the adaptation, the story is loosely after the novel. It is set in Thirties Korea under Japanese colonial rule. The Handmaiden is a lesbian romance set as a dark crime thriller.Lady Hideko (Kim Min-hee) is a brooding heiress locked away in a off grid estate, a Japanese castle with and English architectural wing. Her evil uncle (played by Cho Jin-woong) plans to marry her to be able to buy more books. Yes, I said, buy more books. The library collection of hard backs and illustrated manuscripts is part I love. The narrative reveals that the collection focuses on sunga, Japanese sexual and dark illustrations.
Count Fujiwara (Ha Jung-woo), a scoundrel without a penny plans to defraud Lady Hideko of her fortune. Sook-hee (Kim Tae-ri) a Dickensian thief with a heart (perhaps cliche). The grounds are spectacular. Chan-nook shares a landscape of rock gardens, blooming cherry and groves of dark pergolas. The film kaleidoscope of greens, ultramarine blue and white are jewels. Chan-nook uses Victorian themes from Waters. Characters wear masks to be English or Japanese. Social ranks are set in stone. Underneath the uncle and his friends who attend sexual readings are depraved. There's art theft, sadism and a dungeon with a hungry octopus. To touch the books Lady wears gloves. Emotions are held back at the dining table and in tuxedo. Underneath is a thriller. 
My son, home from college for the weekend, works on an essay about Japan in the Seventh Century. We spoke about privilege, power and Buddhism in the morning. Western education fails to show how Korean art and spiritualism influenced Japan. I was happy he is reading work he was not exposed to in California High School curriculum. We convinced daughter to take a trip to Korea this summer.Park Chan-nook is one of several great filmmakers from Korea.  I encourage you to see the film in a big theater, as the visual experience is lovely.

Purple Martin Found Amelia Earhart

Purple Martin FoundCondominium built on hopescrowd of swallows createsHomeowner Association copesclamor close confines grates

Blame Clytemnestra Or ask Electra?

Serve rites of the dead  Barnstormer songs of pastsing cher zweet and chedeexpress cannot last

Purple Martin Found 

Fate frustrates aerospaceKingfisher one engine planedouble vertical tail racewait on an island in pain

Purple Martin Found

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Purple Martin Birdhouses from Centreville.
Dedicated to Amelia Earhart

copyright Caroline Gerardo November 1 2016

Forgot

Halloween not on a weekendMax votes for change! The last Saturday of October,Rocktober, as we prefer.

MaxForgot
Feel disengaged. Turn off news.Camp Pendleton range live ammo burns south of the ranch.
Beat alarm,hike to greet sunrise at Mount Mine.Forgot phone.Forgot notebook.
Story ideas finish adry poem I'm editing.Liquid words flow unwritten.
Jupiter touches moon with curtains closed. Storm clouds hold sky captive.Good omen Cleveland sage, not for writing.
Back in the cabin: idea headaches.Did I drink box wine firmament?Sulfide stuffy brain forgot the stanzas.Jupiter did you take my dictation?Black coffee tastes of campfire perfume.

Forgot.
Keep writing, prickles return.



Caroline Gerardo Copyright October 29 2016Images: windows in San Juan Bautista, burned field outskirts ofCreston, CA, The bean with my son video. 

Why

be kind life is short

Why Elections bring worst souls?Americans open mouth on FacebookUnfriend person you sit next to, eat homemade cookies;but curse their mother-its only words onlinelet loose your filter century wood stove flingsburning shit on their name.Why?
Car cut you off Nürburgring?Hail horn, pull a 22 boughtfrom rude Cabela's clerk.You said "to go fuck hell."Okay your grammar faults,ask for a case for the gun because you're entitled.
Why
Dog on internet snuggles a baby, makes you cry; but a child 
flooded, homeless, kidnapped, 
orphaned by bombs...skepticism stops typing, 
"What do you need?
Give dollar to corrupt Red Cross.
Why ?
Dog has a heart.Your core has love,empathy grows aching,no-one taught chase 
a ball with 'fever love:clean water, education, safe.You know answersyou're ready to show,not cop out, say I'mvoting and reading eachtedious words because every step
 we Must ask:WHY?

Golden Retriever Smile Recipe

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watch her swim water shakes offwild laughter.
Caroline Gerardo October 2016 copyrights reserved
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Fall Simmer

I love FallSimmer garlic, onions, peppers and squash...Vegetables picked before I let the chickens out at dawn.Shush don't point to poultry there's feed in the lower garden.You'll find it strange if I tell the names of the chooks.Dixie is a speckled Sussex. She's first. Dixie leads a chick band, though she isn't the largest or a rooster. Dixie is the daughter of my neighbor's male from his rogue visit.
Yesterday I picked the last pumpkins up from the raised beds, they stand guard outside the front gate. Chickens will eat pumpkins before Halloween if inside.
Last night coyotes yelped and hollered at three A.M. With my mag flashlight in hand, I went out to have a meeting with them. They know I have a shotgun."Want me to drive down to the barn and settle this?" I yelled.They gathered silent. No snickers about my nightgown.
Answer came from the Dr's barn in the canyon where the puppies cry and the big dogs growl.Under the sky Ursula Major and Minor point towards thesolar lights in the valley below. Glow shared from stars to a crescent moon,
platinum against a cloudless dome.Coyotes look up with me in that second.The pack's paws crunch on ash leaves
scattered on rocks, now become softer.The coy wolves leave without argument. "Try your luck with the bucks hanging in the oak grove," I whispered to their long gone tails. 
Copyright October 8 2016 Caroline Gerardo


My neighbor's pen

Fly Fishing Artist

Ode to Michael Brewster



All days in and near water.Met Master Fly Fisher Man eighteen years past. This famous fly tier and angler became a teacher.Create Ginger Quill, Gold ribbed hare's ear and pale morning dun of string. He taught casting, conservancy and cooking.  Lessons share different by students:forever one in nature;become conservationists;catch and release; or saute salmon on open fire.Rare Apache trout braves the life of an artist.
Michael taught connection with nature.He showed courage.
Dressing flies: a silly life,think what you will;I swim with steel head.Grateful to use my gills.

Thank You Michael BrewsterRest in Peace.   September 27, 2016 copyright Caroline Gerardo for words, images and video

Little Lakes Poem and Videos

Little Lakes Flyfishing
Slabs of Kimberlite press ribbon of quartz.Ultramafic rock lines bridge over Little Lakes.Volcanic eruptions formed hidden diamonds, aslovers under covers, puppy streams betweendogs like water get into fissures.
Tie flies before Rock Creek hike.Mosquito Flats creates feed for trout. Every minute of climb a new pool:Marsh Lake, Heart Lake, Box and Long LakesEarly Explorer sans poetic imagination rule.Climb faster than Big Horn sheep - jewels are yours.Ruby and Gem Lake side trips deliver glacier schoolsSwim with Paiutes and tourists but forheaven's sake don't scare the fish.

Puppy swimming back in Little Lakes




examine for Golden Trout







Caroline Gerardo September 2016 copyrights for poem, video and photographs are mine.