A project in 6 parts. "objects in/around the home"

John Orth, of Holopaw.

Part 4. Leis and flower rings, oh my!
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4. Leis

Up until a few years ago an original Indian River Fruit Stand still stood on A1A in St. Augustine, Florida. It was an open air souvenir shop that had spindly palm trees growing through holes cut in the orange and white aluminum awning that fringed the building.

My friend Alison and I visited the shop each time she was in town for the holidays. To our amazement, much of the original stock was still on the shelves.

Our purchases over the years included hand painted coconut shell banks, lucite dolphins embedded with shells and glitter, a postcard that read "Sweating my ass off in Florida" and a set of pink and white plastic leis.

"Oh, so many boys, so many boys, so many boys,
so many antlers to be tossed off.
Oh, so many pearls, so many pearls, so many pearls,
so many pearls to be polished off.

It's all over, all over, all over, my lovely little twist.
It's all over, all over, all over.
Your face is a mess."

- Holopaw
"Little Stallion with a Glass Jaw"

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A project in 6 parts. "objects in/around the home"

John Orth, of Holopaw.

Part 3. The Silver Snowflakes.

3. Silver Snowflakes

"On tropical summer days I close myself into my front room.
The walls are painted a cool, aquarium blue.
The staghorn fern hung outside the window diffuses the sunlight into shades of shadowy green.
I listen to a pulse lulling mix that might include
Arthur Russell or Blossom Dearie
and watch the silver wire snowflakes hung in front of the window unit whirl."








"Snowflakes whip past my ears...
singing songs with glass-pitched choruses (like singing saws, with cobra hips)
rushing in with stinging kisses.
I see you through the igloo glass... your mittens on the bedside table.
You lose your grip on locquats. They fall into the snow.
These little embers."

- lyrics to "igloo glass"
by holopaw..

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A project in 6 parts. "objects in/around the home"

John Orth, of Holopaw.

Part 2. The Rabbit

2. Rabbit

I have a small collection of concrete lawn ornaments, half of which I keep inside.
The rabbit is my favorite. He sits atop a cabinet in my bathroom.
His pink, marbled eyes have an intensity that seem to imply the unknown trauma that left him with two wire, cartoon tracings where his ears had once been.

"Tonight let them be what they will never truly be.
Don't call them out as barn swallows
but 'terror on the wing'.
Let me be what I will always be.

I took a step towards the dark,
the dark took a step towards me.
All holes. No Glory...
the cherry glow,
only rubies reflecting in the early snow."

-"oh glory" by holopaw

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