Portfolio
By Retta
Mini Worlds
"...and when I sleep let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost."
Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Simple Forms
"Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars or ropes of diamonds."
L. M. Montegomery, Anne of Green Gables
The Small in a Big Sea
"...I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself the king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams."
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
POPS of Color
"I live in a box of paints."
Joni Mitchell, "A Case of You"
Mountain Landscapes
Where rose the mountains, there to him were friends;
where roll’d the ocean, there on was his home;
where a blue sky, and glowing clime, extends.
He had the passion and the power to roam;
were unto him companionship; they spake
a mutual language.”
Lord Byron, "Child Harold's Pilgrimage"
Natural Patterns
"Is this continuous breaking the order or the battle?"
Pablo Neruda, Libro de las preguntas
Hotel Hangers
[insert inspirational quote here]
City Life
Grimy windows frost,
A kid squirms next to me,
The lady clad in cheetah skins
Coughs and rubs her knee.
Retta, Nov. 2018
Attitude
"The poet ate his salad with his fingers, leaf by leaf."
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Water Landscapes
"I started Early--Took my Dog--
And visited the Sea--
The Mermaids in the Basement
Came out to look at me..."
Emily Dickson, "I started Early"
Fantastical
"Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent."
A. C. Doyle, The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes