Tag Archives: quilting

Word Cloud

You are a tourist
Said somebody that I used to know
Working in a vacuum
Next to others locked in their individual spaces

All drinking cough syrup
Like it’s water to ease whatever needs easing
Watching clocks keep times like these
Moving in an even flow

So time moves forward
Sweeping static
Attitudes into an abyss
Of past memories that ask “how did we get here?”

The future is coming in hope driven word clouds

We’re renegades, ever ready to start
Making no excuses in crazy times like these

© Hilary Clark, 2/3/12

Any Color’s All Right As Long As It’s Red (for Basil)

Grandpa in his navy blue
three-piece
suit and claret
tie taught us his made up
word
Transmugliforcandanbumshamity

In leather slippers and ruby
robe, he entertained
grandchildren with tales sung in a
baritone about whales
making love on their
knees.  Seated on the tall shag
carpet at his
feet, we giggled because
whales have
tails and we were too
young to understand
sex

But we knew about
stories and Lawrence
Welk and the
bubble machine and
Love and any color’s all right
as long as it’s
red

© Hilary Clark, 6/4/14

See the quilt here.

Celtic Knot

Stained glass latticework
Weaves knots of
Love
Loyalty and
Friendship

The infinite cycle of life

Interdependent

Interconnected

We dance
Across the planes of
Mind
Body and
Spirit

© Hilary Clark, 5/28/14

See the quilt here.