Pictured Above: Vassily Kandinsky, Improvisation 27, Garden of Love II Source: Wikimedia Commons Editor's Note: Originated in Japan, a zuihitsu (meaning "follow the brush") is a literary form typically written in free verse that uses interwoven writings to comment on subjects that tend to respond to the author's surroundings. (Source: Poets.org) Improvisation 27 (Garden of Love II) Today, I came up over the rise out of breath not so much because of my faulty heart valve but because of the...

Pictured Above: Highways and Byways by Paul Klee Photo Source: Wikimedia Commons Paul Klee's Highways and Byways Klee worked on Highways and Byways after visiting Egypt and thinking about civilization, which makes sense. What else during the inbetween of war would he be thinking about? We’re always in war hiatus unless we’re actively killing each other. Klee must have seen these ruins and thought about the end of days. It’s useful to pull back as far as Klee has done to see life and the...

Photo Source: Unsplash Sandra comes out to the parking lot after work to find a flock of wild turkeys surrounding her car. She’s parked way out at the back of the lot next to the woods. She stops a moment to watch them, the first moment of the day when she hasn’t been staring at a screen, trying to solve a problem that her boss Todd is panicking about. And now here she is in the orange twilight of a perfect evening watching birds in the necessary tasks of what she imagines is a calm life....