Note to Self— Marcia Arrieta
the railroad tracks The Light in August rebuilding the house
these are the days of sequencing ordinary into unique
complexity into simplicity holding the leaf—the tree’s reflection
in the window the clock & hearth Eudora Welty’s short stories
the Delta Blues from road to garden somewhere in Yoknaptawpha
imagined rain & the sparrow’s song
Marcia Arrieta is a poet, artist, and teacher, who lives on the canyon in Pasadena, California. She has two poetry collections–archipelago counterpoint (BlazeVOX) and triskelion , tiger moth, tangram, thyme (Otoliths), and a chapbook forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press. She edits and publishes Indefinite Space a poetry/art journal–