Cedar Cove

Vintage Parlour Box ~ This Vintage Parlour Box was created for my Guest Artist Show at Whidbey Art Gallery in Langley during the month of July, 2017.  When I started the project, I wasn't quite sure where it would take me and how it would turn out.  I decided it would be best to simply tap into my emotions.  Anything coming from that place of unedited, authentic truth can't be wrong.

This Parlor Box is called "Cedar Cove," an ode to three beautiful cedar trees in the woods behind my property that were recently taken down to make way for two houses.  Progress?   Ugh. Here's the poem that accompanies the piece. 

Cedar Cove

Every morning

for twelve and a half years,

     early

cup of coffee in hand

I shuffled onto the back porch

rain or shine,

     in bare feet 

raised my gaze to the clouds

admiring the towering majesty

of your limbs

Most times quiet

Other times thrashing in the island current,

a mammoth, cone-shaped monolith

blacked in the night sky

blocking out the stars and moon

     at times

always steady, always there.

Witness to Marlboro tears

snapping rage and biting loneliness

to soul-searching, reawakening, 

moments of serenity and lightness of being,

always steady, always there.

Until this morning.

I awoke to the chainsaws

and I could not save you

because you were not mine to save.

I’m so sorry.

 

Sandy Rubini (c)

Glory Days ~ 7/2017 WAG Show

Putting the final touches on "Glory Days"

Glory Days
 

First time was a howl back.

Same bar

similar town,

Same stranger

with beguiling eyes and a toothy grin. 

No good intentions put forth

and none asked for. 

2:05 AM.

Long, rolling stretches of desert hillside,

windows rolled down

no headlamps,

no souls for at least a hundred miles.

He’s navigating by moonlight.

Drink can let the wild one out -

the one with rapid-cycling ambitions

who longs to get out of this hell hole,

away from the same beguiling eyes and toothy grin. 

Different. 

But just the same.

Sandy Rubini (c)