http://www.ava-love.com *purchase at www.avalove.etsy.com*send birds to ava@ava-love.com* Thu, 19 Aug 2010 03:18:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It was the memory of returning home. The night won't leave me alone for my forgetfulness, I lost my favorite red shoes somewhere, by the river side, when we swam to the center of it, and listened to the way water sounds, inside. The braids of purple flowers around my wrist enchanted me. ... http://www.ava-love.com/?p=352 A slow wind moves through the trees. Orange syrup of sunset, drips from branches, birds of the night, fold close to me. Pressure of dialect, vocabulary of air mixed with desire, the black pressure of night. This night brings, dark chords, dark birds, the bull in the alleyway frightened me, but still, I move ... http://www.ava-love.com/?p=351 My father built me a boat. A small wooden boat to ride on the back of the sea. Sea roads, sea houses, sea bridges, sea fields breaks open like white flowers. Break me with the rhythm of water the tide the tide breaks a thousand orange mornings. The ocean records this rising, this falling. My little boat sinks ... http://www.ava-love.com/?p=349 I take out my flute. I sway in ribbons of the earth's rotation. You are my axis. It's when I fall here, my nose nestled in the neck of the wind, that I cannot see myself anymore churning butter. The story says things that are forbidden are the most tempting of all. They wait for me at the water's ... http://www.ava-love.com/?p=347 It's a terrible thing to hold back that which springs in you; the great ocean holds me waist high in the crush of waves, it's none of my business the way I love you. The small ships of small talk, launch bravely over waterways, so noble, white sails snap wildly- it's none of my business the way my heart ... http://www.ava-love.com/?p=346 I love light in all it's meanings and manifestations the way it curves around each finger tip as you cup air, and make flowers out of it. The way it makes me levitate when I take out the heavy things. Unpack your bags, and stay a while. Where there are imperfections there are perfections in the way the ... http://www.ava-love.com/?p=345 water installation large square room with floor to ceiling screens with projected images of the ocean and sound of waves. room filled with sand. teacher led yoga class on the element of WATER. can't decide if teacher will be recorded in loop, or live. probably a mixture of both. dialog using all metaphors of ... http://www.ava-love.com/?p=344 White as this is white, I am in the middle of this picture, knees folded in posture, waiting for the serpent snake to rise up the spine to the forehead, crown, and back down again. Enchanted by music, I am white as this is white. There are stories to be told. I listen for them. Hands folded across the ... http://www.ava-love.com/?p=341 this pressure of milk. the way the earth overflows when she is with child. it's the prophecy inside seeds, the slow and eventual tree. it's not everything we don't have that makes the earth bloom. take note of it. cadence of what all religions believe god is, will keep playing whether you recognize it as classical or baroque, whether it is studied ... http://www.ava-love.com/?p=339 White as the shoulders of snowdrops, the chest of a folding wave, your mouth, white vapors of clouds- What I swallowed, I wasn't afraid of. Like Icarus as he ascended, like a magnet pulled by his love for the sun. They say at every ending there is a beginning. And so, when the wings, begin to ... http://www.ava-love.com/?p=338