ELLA LEVY | art.

“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return.”
-Nat King Cole

“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don’t go back to sleep.”
-Rumi, A Great Wagon, Spring Giddiness

-ella 

I still think of you most days, and am relieved that you live on.
If only through my vivid memories…
Of your otherworldly coffee cakes and brownies with pecans.
Of the way you never wore a pair of jeans my entire lifetime.
Of your wry grin and twinkle in your eye.
Of how you taught me what a snapdragon was. 
Of how much you loved Snoopy.
Of the way your powder room smelled.
Of how to truly love a man, as you loved your husband so dearly.
I’m so relieved you’re still here living on in the fabric of my mind.
I love you.

-ella 

You are, and always will be, mon petit chou.

-ella 

Flowers from you.
Dried and pressed.
Set out in the sunshine.
In the snow.

-ella 

You have everything you need.

-ella

“These are the seasons of emotion and like the winds they rise and fall…
This is the mystery of the quotient — Upon us all a little rain must fall.”
[Led Zeppelin, The Rain Song]

-ella 

I feel fall.

-ella 

They put their almost-empty glasses down and sat in silence in the inert evening heat watching a fireman running laps around and around and around the block. He wasn’t going anywhere. She played that old game in her head that she did so often when she was bored or awkward or antsy - “this time last week…this time last month…this time last year….”
This time last year they were breaking up.

-ella 
 

Please spontaneously dance instead.

-ella