Fractal Vision

By Andie Kirkdale

A multifaceted collection of poetry, plays, short fiction, and art.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Nov 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9781387445462

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Fractal Vision

Andie Kirkdale

Copyright

Fractal Vision

Copyright © 2022 by Andie Kirkdale

All Rights Reserved.

ISBN  978-1-387-44546-2

No part of this book may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including photocopying, scanning, recording, printing, or by any information storage and retrieval systems, without express written permission from the publisher, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review or scholarly journal.

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, products, organizations, and incidents are creations of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, products, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Cover art by Andie Kirkdale

Sleeping Cat: Poetry

Poetic Tidings

The poets sit in chairs

From long-closed offices,

Lean toward rickety tables

Lifted with love from landfills,

Light the secondhand candles,

Flint flame to beeswax,

Put thrift store pencils

On cut-up paper bags,

Slices of cardboard, and

Vintage envelopes addressed

To the mayors of 1975 and 1992,

And laugh and write

And write and laugh.

They fold their papers

Into smiling origami birds

That fly into the sunrise

Crinkling and chirping

Tidings from the subconscious

To wake the too long asleep.

Cat

Cat--

Fluffy, round,

Sleeps all day,

Fluffiest friend we have--

Scratch.

Cinnamon Toast Teachings

Sprinkle

Evenly.

Crunch slow.

Finish

With flourish,

Now wise.

When We See Again

When we see again

The world will be different.

Where there was darkness,

There is now light.

Where there was illness,

There is now healing.

Where the was war,

There is now peace.

But only if we see again.

Spring

drop

drop

drop

falls the rain

up

up

up

grows the flower

Love (Part 1)

Love is forgiveness

That does not demand tribute.

Love joins with freedom

To break bonds of ignorance,

To shine a light of wholeness.

Box

They boxed themselves in tight,

A routine fixed, self-righteous,

Opinions always the same,

Ghosts in their own lives.

Cloud

Cloud--

White, drifting,

Engulfs slow airplanes,

Follows us to work--

Rain.

Fairy Tales

Once upon a time,

Fairies wrote their own stories.

They whispered their tales

To their favorite people

Who dreamed the stories onward.

Migration

A duck swims

Over placid blue,

Sees the angle of the sun,

Flies.

A Fly

A fly

Once came by

To buzz.

He ate

Sandwiches

And left.

He knew

The purpose

Of life.

Lemon

Lemon--

Yellow bright,

Tart on tongue,

Gift of the sun,

Clarity.

Dream

Don’t do it, they said.

Remain safe,

Expect nothing,

Ask no questions,

Make no waves.

Meanwhile, the spirit fades

Astray and lost,

Evades adventure,

Runs from love, and

Dies.

The Question

Why? she asked.

Society of the Cherry Tree

They gather for dessert,

Tasting tart honesty,

A springtime ritual

For garden memories,

As nuclear egos

Compete to complete

Scorched earth policies.

Summer

The heat blooms fresh,

With blue sky bright,

With new grass scent,

With rain plunk roar.

Ducks quack in ponds,

The day turns starred.

In the warm night,

Sounds fall’s chill call.

De-clutter

Add up

Then subtract

The rest.

Keep that

Which you need.

Let go.

Spider

Spider--

Silent, quick,

Spins new webs,

Guardian of the mysteries,

Wise.

Remains

In the desert the explorers found

Stuffed into tennis ball cans

Cartoons warning of pandemics,

Fearsome funnies,

The last immune system

People didn’t take seriously.

Shape

Your life is your own

To draw as you need.

Circle, square, triangle,

Your shape is your own.

Realization

During the flight

it occurred to him