A Tiny Pocket
Fun-Loving
snowbird flamingo
art in the bathroom, a laugh
where least expected
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acrylic, marker, water soluble pastel, and washi tape
2025
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Notes about poem and art:
• “Fun-Loving” is a tiny playful haiku about a sizable poster that was way fun to order as a 40th-birthday gift for someone whose bathroom makes a terrific gallery for lighthearted and unexpected whimsy.
• An analogous colors exercise from about 10 years ago rose to the occasion of becoming an envelope in which to tuck cash for a summer concert as well as an enclosure card to announce the didn’t-arrive-on-time-for-the-birthday-itself-but-will-get-to-you-soon wishlist art, art that will alternate seasonally with the similarly humorous bird art that was last year’s gift.
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11 responses to “A Tiny Pocket”
Great fun to know someone else has a fun bathroom flamingo story; in our case, it’s daughter-in-law Christine whose bathroom is whimsically wonderful to visit, starting with a “stupid seagulls” poster a year ago, and now a snowbird flamingo poster. The posters will each get time in the spotlight for six months annually : )
- I’m an early riser routinely but woke even earlier than usual today so got up and got moving!
- Wow. Until you started telling me about having difficulty posting your poem at Coursera, I’d never even considered that there was any kind of bot censoring or otherwise. I wonder how you might be able to get through to a person—perhaps through the instructor?
YES!
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