The Mag Boldly Best

The simple, most uncomplicated thing you'll ever do,
 is be yourself.

"Follow your inner moonlight, don't hide the madness." -  Allen Ginsberg

THE MAG

Photo by Elene Usdin
offered by
Tess Kincaid
for Magpie Tales

I've been pretty lucky to view our magpie photo each week and write, but usually before I put my words to a photo my curiosity takes over.


Tess often offers photos that are too insistent to ignore, bringing unfamiliar artists with thought provoking as well as soul-satisfying work.  I like exploring the "who" and "what" of her theme photo.  If you've checked out the two photo links you'll see how I arrived at my magpie this week via Elene Usdin's  quixotic yet highly visionary work.

Early Morning She Awakes

She finds it unsettling to chase acceptable-norm.

Darkness, becomes her utopia-winged norm.

The more dark, inky layers of pitch-black the better.

Good apples are always good apples.

Rare birds breed bizarreness.

Musty old patterns and behaviors, spill bleakness.

The weirder she becomes

the saner she feels.

Irresponsibly sensible, pushing comical to extremes.

The days of wine and roses, 

Hepburn and Taylor molds 

are of old-

Today it's Swift in our heads, and Usdin, Bender and Gaga

or so I've been told.

For each murmur of surrender, every pulsating encounter, dancing bodies

trembling with delight, so eagerly hungry for all that's bold-

slowly sifting ordinary moments for unusual reflections.

And so we applaud newly refreshed thoughts within our day-

Tell me what did the cake have to say?

"I will never die, thought the cake to itself, in even simpler terms, as cakes did not have sophisticated use of language." 

-  Aimee Bender