Wordle

Ciro has found a cool web ap which turns your documents into graphic art. Here is one for my chapbook of the poems I wrote last August. You can click on it for a bigger version. Word size is to do with frequency. Color and layout are random (but manipulated a little by me). My favorite word combinations are "step says," "space giant," "mechanical people," and "one-way play."

Random Memories

My third birthday. Alice-in-Wonderland themed. My cousin Scarlett ate fistfuls of chocolate cake until she was sick.

My great aunt died. A year later, my grandmother died. A month later, their house burned down. I recovered a green plaid shirt, a box of costume jewelry, and a metal filigree picture frame. While cleaning the soot off, I lost my grip on the glass and sliced open my palm. I have never felt a cleaner cut. I don't know how long I left my hand under the tap, ecstatic at the sensation of cold water on exposed nerves.

I pounded discarded limestone into a powder so I could whitewash a wattle-and-daub wall I built in a corner of the woods. It took hours, and years.

In a church musical, I played Jonah, although the songs were not in a comfortable range. I think I was cast because I was popular; a strong singer; an assured stage presence - and not because I could execute a flawless shoulder roll from the mouth of the whale.