This is my house mate Olivia. I got to hang out with this lovely lady yesterday and take some pictures of her in her stylish new hand made clothes. We adventured through UW's beautiful campus and froze a little between scampering through cherry blossoms and exploring little groves...truly, nothing hot coffee couldn't put to rights. Livs is our scientist, artist, cyclist, fashion designer, rock climber, seamstress, chef, ultimate frisbee-er, engineer, and student extraodinair - how she does it, we don't know, but she does. She is also a delight to photograph, being elegant, easily amused, and oh so photogenic. Check out her stuff here and here and also her etsy store here.
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Birdsong
Bustle and caw. Recall the green heat
rising from the new minted
earth, granite
and basalt, proto-continents
shuffling
and stacking the deck, first
shadows flung
from the ultraviolet haze. A
fern
uncurls from the swamp, the
microscopic furnace
of replication warms the
world, one
becoming two, two four:
exponential blossom.
Lush with collision, the
teacup balance
of x and y,
cells like balloons
escaping into the sky—then the
dumbstruck
hour, unmoored by a
river,
a first fish creeps to the
land to marvel
at the monstrous buds of its
toes. And stars
grow feet and walk across the
years, into these dozing,
ordinary days, climbing the
spine’s winding
stair, where crickets yawn and
history spins.
- Joanie Mackowski
