Singily Skipping Along -Sneak Peek.

Deanne Fitzpatrcik http://www.hookingrugs.com/ is the amazing artist and friend who hooked my next children's book. I, too am a happy hooker.. We are very excited to put the work of women's hands and hearts in a book which will be in the hands of children.  Fall 2013. Thank you Nimbus Publishers for being open to a hooked book! Now, by hook or buy book !   (:  

Natural Tears.

In the library, with the candlestick.

A library, a study. 

Light.   

Ms. Murple. 

Life's a game of clue  

 & I'll never figure out who done it ...

               All's a  mystery.  

International Women's Day, 2014.

 MADONNA 

real madonnas

are not bullet-breasted singers

making videos and imitating 

Marilyn Munroe

they are women who take care

of other women's children

women who: 

wipe noses 

change diapers

make meals

help children learn

to climb the Jungle Gym

while their mothers

climb corporate ladders

in stockings and three-piece suits

argue court cases

or make minimum wage 

which pays rent

and daycare

 

if I could

I would paint a fresco

of a woman with a rope 

around her waist

a rag-taggle of children 

following along through the park 

her nose would be smudged 

wiith fingerpaint

her jeans splattered

with playdough  

in one hand 

I would paint

one half of the university diploma

I studied for 

in her other hand

would be the hand

of my child  

there would be a halo 

around her head

if I sold this painting

I would take her

to a Greek island

where someone could take care of her

where there are no children saying

can I could you I want my Mommie

I would call this painting

Shirley in the Park with the Children.

  

-from In this House are Many Women , Goose Lane Editions , 1992.   

       
 

-Rug by Deanne Fitzpatrick http://www.hookingrugs.com/