All About ME

Right now, this blog is all about ME. I am hoping to post the previously published work of other artists. Let me know if you are interested. Mary

The Next to New Shop

When I was a child, we often would visit rummage sales, garage sales and the Goodwill looking for bargains. Times were hard and it was wonderful to discover something special and inexpensive. Our favorite shopping place was The Next to New Shop. The store sold items that were gently used. They were tastefully arranged in a store that was decorated as nicely as a "real" boutique--with dried flower arrangements and art on the walls--it was a real boutique. Everything seemed interesting, exciting, pretty or useful. I hope to recreate in this blog-Zine a "store" as a full as that one with pieces worthy of revisiting. I hope you will "buy" them with your eyes. The "fee" is your time and attention, directed this way again. Do visit many times. And submit, if you wish. Mary

Owl Gate Niagara

Owl gate, Niagara, Mary Stebbins, edificeWrecked
www.edificewrecked.com

Guidelines

Please send the post with the title of the piece and it's venue of previous publication. If possible, include a link to the originally published piece to to the venue. Do not submit anything that is in a current issue or still "live" (not archived). Post titles should be in this format: piece title, author, previous venue.

While the pieces included in this blog do not necessarily represent the personal, political or aesthetic views of the editors, we will delete anything truly offensive (excessively violent or pornographic).

Flocking Swallowtails Coloring Page

Flocking Swallowtails, Mary Stebbins, edificeWrecked Coloring Contest winner
www.edificewrecked.com

Second Chance Club

Many wonderful pieces are published once and then disappear from public view. I want to give them a second chance to be seen. This blog republishs out of print/no longer "live" poems, prose and photos. More details to follow soon. Please contact me in the comments space if you would like to participate. Mary

New

I have just been born
anew, emerging from the chrysalis
of my former life.

I stretch my wings to dry,
angelic laundry.
You float

down to me. Your wings
are halos, two shining suns, bright
invitations.

I join you in a wedding
dance as morning rises. We share
honeysuckle nectar. Our wingtips

touch, touch. Open, close. Slow
passion. Our joining
lazy and good.

No one whispers
“ephemeral”
more quietly than we.

~
Mary Stebbins
For Bruce
Published in City Edition, May 29, 1989
“available”