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that is your home

Sandra Peterson Ramirez

Posted on June 29, 2014

Moo

 

 

repeat after me:

in the three thousand one hundred and eighth copy

of the third edition of halldór laxness’s novel independent people

bjartur í sumarhúsum is called karlotta mayer

 

all the bus tickets in rio

all the lower lips in kirkut

all the coat hangers in basle

− when I awake all this shall be yours!

 

where the Plough is reflected in the soup spoon

− that is your home

 

*

when the flea and the blue whale meet in the encyclopaedia

they are the same size

when the colours vanish from the national flags

the earth begins to flutter

 

from all the things we learn in the sixty-eighth form by Sjón

 

 

 

*****

 

Photo by Sandra Peterson Ramirez.

and I was happy

Sandra Peterson Ramirez

Posted on June 23, 2014

big tree with swooping branches

 

The Copper Beech

by Marie Howe

 

Immense, entirely itself,

it wore that yard like a dress,

 

with limbs low enough for me to enter it

and climb the crooked ladder to where

 

I could lean against the trunk and practice being alone.

 

One day, I heard the sound before I saw it, rain fell

darkening the sidewalk.

 

Sitting close to the center, not very high in the beaches,

I heard it hitting the high leaves, and I was happy,

 

watching it happen without it happening to me.

 

 

 

*****

 

Photo by Sandra Peterson Ramirez.

Off My Chest

Sandra Peterson Ramirez

Posted on June 1, 2014

white flowers with multicolor splatter

 

Dear Audible, if they are “recommendations based on past purchases”, why are they mostly books I’ve already purchased? From you.

 

Dear Amazon, I order things for myself, my mom, my sister, the kids, my husband, my friends and even my dog. You should probably stop trying to figure out what to recommend for me. I don’t really need the latest sci-fi romance starring a wise-cracking werewolf on a space Harley. Probably.

You’re right about the shoes though. I love the shoes.

 

Miranda, it would be great if you could stop telling me how hot I am. Frankly it makes me a touch uncomfortable. And while I think you’re cool, the truth is you’re better at lulling me to sleep than you are at waking me up.

 

To whoever does this to flowers, why? Have you not looked at flowers in nature? They’re kind of the greatest thing ever. This just isn’t necessary.  

 

xo, 

 

Sandra

 

 

 

*****

 

Photo and text by Sandra Peterson Ramirez.

  

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