28/52: Design Tricks

In the designer's bag of tricks is the conjoining of two things

to think of something completely new.

Think of a Coke bottle and a shoe at the same time -

hold them in your mind like stereo inputs

to think about a better shoe.

Or maybe you will come away with a better Coke bottle.

A bottlish shoe, a shoeish bottle.

Is that what God did when he imagined humans?

Holding and angel and a beast

in His mind at the same time?

An angelic beast?

A beastly angel?

27/52: The Doe-Woman Between

the first time I saw the doe-woman
she was standing alert between the trees
(between worlds).

It was as if with one eye
I saw brown fur
muscled haunches
and flicking ears
and with the other eye
brown hair pulled back
and a slender body beneath
bark colored tunic and
leaf green breeches.

her wide coal black eyes
were the same
however I looked at her.

A stick cracked behind me here
or somewhere else,
some plane above or below,
and I returned my gaze
only in time to see
a white tail flashing
over a fallen trunk
or was it a hand extended
thrown up to help propel the leap?

only the trees stared back
seeing me with how many eyes?