Wednesday, January 05, 2005
Hi Y'all--Happy New Year--it's been raining and snowing around here, flooding all the rivers and creeks. Much needed water, tho. also, way colder than Texas, for sure. Right now I'm sitting in my friend Pam's front room, drinking green tea. the wood stove is fired up, burning cedar slow. The walls are full of Darryl's collection of masks from all over the world, found mostly in secondhand stores (Darryl is Pam's husband). There must be a hundred of these mysterious masks, all shapes and sizes. My favorite is a very scary one hanging from a plant hook jutting from the ceiling on a string. It would fit over a head, so is really more than a mask, with a life size face, red with balck and white lines around eyes, ears, mouth, huge teeth at least an inch square, each one, and there are about ten of them, then two fangs protruding out of the lower back jaw. Huge nostrils on the nose, huge eye hold, egg shaped. Huge ears. real hair: black with five long feathers hanging on the ends at the back. I haven't asked Darryl yet what story he has for this one but it must be a good one. Maybe I'll try it on. No, I better wait to see what it might signify, eh? Maybe I'll just write a poem based on it, yeah, that seems right...
Well, more soon... I'll be back to Tex this weekend.
My very best to you all!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ chris m ~~~~~~~~~~~~ o~o/ ~~~~
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