XO PROJECT: ICE AGE

"Every woman is a vessel,
 is evasive, is aquatic, is ah..."
                               Patti Smith






Glaciation

continues unabated

A double-header

for Memorial Day

 to open the summer season

So frosty

time to get some

sunshine

Flowers

and weeds

Ultra-cold

I had to wear gloves

to carry it in a paper

shopping bag

A cool day and no signs

of melting yet at all

despite hot May sunlight

Consumate

 realization

extra-large vessel

The Bride

meets

The Big Boy

This was Saturday

when I returned all the weeds

were gone but the XOs

were still there

Flash forward

to Sunday

The big bottle

was emptied and lying 

on its side with no cap,

It had to have happened

the afternoon I left the XO

I think the weed-choppers

found a bottle of

 potable ice-water and drank it

either them or the really

lost homeless Negro

who camps nearby

The imploded XO

looked particularly

sculptural

Flashback

I discovered it still there

the night after installation

on Thursday,

 in the crepuscule it looked

like a modernist glass vase

28-30 May 2017