jolie laide

jolie laide

I started this when I lived in Brooklyn and struggled for grace in a city that grants moments of beauty and ugliness breathtakingly close to one another. Now I live in a place where things are a different kind of ugly and the beauty is pedestrian. I struggle with that.

11.02.2006

I see something beautiful, then I see something ugly.
The day starts out cold and drizzly, then the sun breaks through on reddening ivy.
A man on the subway platform yells something horrible and vulgar at me, then the woman next to me on the train is achingly beautiful.
I meet a stranger's eyes and smile and his face does not change, I meet a stranger's eyes and smile and he grins back.
The sun is going down, lemon colored through butter leaves and now I must find my way home.

2 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

jolie laide

I see only pretty through your prism

you are quicksilver, you are time's bubbling spring

I'm always inspired

so I always come back

I need light in my life

4:00 PM  
Blogger ttractor said...

r-m, I started to reply to this, but it became my post for today...

6:53 PM  

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