Week 17: Rivercake
its a traveling day offering, the pre-color start of a new piece and a stream write. i hope your ride down the river is a fun dream, frosting cream and all.
Rivercake: a cake floating down a river, candles lit, fluffy frosting spills over, some floats up into the air. So much whipped cream, so happy to be a part of someone’s celebration, it’s giddy and its laughter generates internal helium that carries it off into the sky.
Sky is air around us, we usually look out at the sky and see clear blue, clouds or stars. Then fog tucked down in the groove of mountains one morning made me consider that sky isn’t just out there, a pretty thing to see but all around us, we breath the sky and its always with us, right up against our skin, bare skin, not covered with a sleeve.
Sleeve like an envelope, something you put a note in, a flat paper pocket designed to carry a card or sentiment to a Birthday receiver.
Receiver, a device to capture a message, like an envelope, but for sound, a radio receiver, yet it could be written, a letter receiver, a mailbox or the way the river receives the cake on a fanciful day, frosting and the imagination float from one thing to another, take the current for a ride, just like the rivercake!
What if your day was a dream?
What kind of cake would you make?
My day is a dream, a dream-day, a daydream cake, with candles like flaming pens that write big and small and in between, upwardly, into the sky, skywriting all of a piece, like those chalk holders that music teachers use to draw all five lines of the staff on the board at the same time, in parallel, though the movement of the arm may waver, leaving synchronized traces that squiggle, are wavy together, as if carried on the current of a stream, a stream of consciousness, a chuckling cooling float down the river of life, not as a leaf but as an exciting flaming cake! A rivercake, a writing cake, a beacon–even through the fog–bobbing and chortling, announcing, “Here I come, anything might happen!”
Thank you Kathy! i love your reply. i am tickled that you respond with a stream of your own. Wonderful “skywriting” and i love the image of the chalk holder being used to draw staff. i don’t think i’ve ever seen this device but i can picture it from your description. Cool! i so appreciate you’re joining me here and replying!