Katrina Rodabaugh

HE CALLED FROM MANHATTAN OR OPPOSUM AND CREATE A WONDER


Tired with the figuring and configuring or with the attempts to know things that are more intuitive or interior or silent but with shape texture and with color.

The trees are a range of trees from that particular region.

Oak maple birch willow blue spruce and birch oak maple willow.

Wild carrot chicory daisy thistle or grows in roadside waste or water.



He called to say he got the email but he did not write her back.

She said she wanted him to take a step back so she didn’t have to take two.

I said repeat or repeating.



He called to say he had something to talk about but he would rather talk about it later or after he returned from New York to California or after he returned from the conference to warmer warming weather and hills to keep thinking to or high rises like a second structure.

This did not work and the result was low visibility of roads and a traffic citation with tea stains spread from one new pair of shoes to new reused or recycled cotton or paper.

The front light is a sensor light but it does not sensor movement above the waist so much as it sensors skunks and stray cats and opossums and raccoons that scoot or saunter or waddle up the driveway when they enter.

Each time the light clicks on it does not just cast light it makes the sound of something electrical ticking or it startles then creates a worry awe or wonder.


A bookshelf full of them.

Two cast iron birds perched to watch her over.



Katrina Rodabaugh writes poetry, prose, and fiction hybrids. She also makes art & craft out of paper, fabric, and various found objects. She's most interested in interdisciplinary artwork including the meshing of art and craft, poetry and prose, visual and performing arts, and more generally that creative space "between". You can visit her weekly musings in the blogosphere at www.katrinarodabaugh.blogspot.com