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vickie.bird
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Boston based artist. Occasional poet. Chronic illness warrior. Noisy & nervous. Empathic & odd. Drawn to shiny little objects, like a crow. Renowned recluse. Afraid of almost everything. World’s worst ukulele player.

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I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.

Jack Kerouac

Boy. Charcoal on paper. 10 x 8 inches.

#fineart #portrait #charcoal #worksonpaper #jackkerouac #womensart #bskyart
Charcoal portrait of a young teenage boy. He looks over his left shoulder at the viewer, sly smile on his lips, knit cap tilted at a jaunty angle.
January 6, 2026 at 9:09 PM
vickiebird.bsky.social
These sudden ends of time must give us pause.
We fray into the future, rarely wrought
Save in the tapestries of afterthought.
More time, more time. Barrages of applause
Come muffled from a buried radio.
The New-year bells are wrangling with the snow.

Richard Wilbur, Year’s End (excerpt). 1948
December 31, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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thekentacorn.bsky.social
Dance like nobody's watching;
love like you've never been hurt;
sing like nobody's listening;
live like it's heaven on Earth
A curly oak
December 31, 2025 at 7:16 PM
vickiebird.bsky.social
Another bit of bright color on a (slightly less dreary) winter day. Still more apples from that particular point in time when I was painting a LOT of apples.

Three Apples II. Oil on canvas.

#stillife #oilpainting #fruit #apples #greenapples #womensart #bskyart
A contemporary oil painting of three vividly colored green apples, bunched together in an extreme close-up on a square canvas. One apple is barely visible, but all three sit in dramatic light, throwing long shadows.
December 31, 2025 at 5:54 PM
vickiebird.bsky.social
shuddering winds, a
grim sky and cruelly cold,
but my heart is snug.

Me, this evening.

Drone photo taken over the woods behind our house.

#haiku #dailyhaiku #micropoetry #winter
An aerial photo of snow covered trees and a stream of frozen water.
December 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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A bit of bright color on a dreary winter day. I painted this during an all-consuming apple phase I was going through at the time.

Three Apples I. Oil on canvas.

#stilllife #oilpainting #fruit #apples #greenapples #womensart #bskyart
A contemporary oil painting of three vividly colored green apples, bunched together in an extreme close-up on a square canvas.
December 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
vickiebird.bsky.social
melancholy heart,
not quite healed from losing you,
sad, but not as sad.

Me, recently.

#haiku #dailyhaiku #micropoetry #death #loss #pain #cairn #grave #dog #dogs
A cairn built upon the grave of my beloved old dog who recently passed away. The last of my two boys to leave me. Come spring there will be a carpet of flowering ground cover planted around this sweet boy. A cairn built upon the grave of a beloved old dog who passed away. The first of my two sweet old men to leave us. Come spring there will be a carpet of flowering ground cover planted around this dear boy.
December 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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It’s an absolutely beautiful foggy Fall morning.

#fall #nature #fog #leaves #trees
November 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Hari Ren
October 18, 2025 at 4:43 AM
vickiebird.bsky.social
Overhelmed by everything everywhere. And not in a good way.
October 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
vickiebird.bsky.social
wee little seamstress
length of fabric, colored thread
tiny stitches sewn.

#haiku #dailyhaiku #micropoetry

Spools of thread on an old fabric tag. Mixed media.

#mixedmedia #foundmaterialsart #worksonpaper #womensart #bskyart
Three old wooden spools of black thread, painted on a crumpled tag from a bolt of fabric. Mixed media (paint, pastel, india ink, pencil).
August 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
vickiebird.bsky.social
Understand me.
I'm not like an ordinary world.
I have my madness,
I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

Charles Bukowski

Abbott Handerson Thayer, Seated Angel (detail). Oil on wood, begun 1899, completed 1921. Photo taken Hartford, Connecticut, May 2018.
Oil painting of a serious young woman, with rosy cheeks and blue eyes, in a ruffled white dress. She has a golden halo and large wings sprouting from her shoulder blades.
August 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
vickiebird.bsky.social
Death. Little dogs. Dark chocolate.
August 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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- after the rain, before the sun -
Double exposed photograph of an oak tree leaf, laying in the green grass, with several raindrops on its surface. There is a soft blurry sheen all over the photo caused by the double exposure.
August 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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My painting BLACK EYED SUSAN
August 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
vickiebird.bsky.social
People take pictures of the summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to prove that it really existed.

Ray Davies

#porch #porchswing #summer #dancing #thekinks
A woman lays on a porch swing in a white summer dress, one leg and booted foot dangling down to push the swing. The same woman’s legs and booted feet, seen dancing in close-up on the same porch, empty swing in the background.
August 3, 2025 at 1:29 PM
vickiebird.bsky.social
I want to find myself lost here (again). Dizzy with looking up, and dancing, always dancing, among the trees.

Taken by me, in a forest somewhere in New England.
Standing beneath enormously tall pines, I took a photo looking straight up at them; the sky peeking from between their branches.
July 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
vickiebird.bsky.social
Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart!

Charlotte Brönte

Spool of thread on an old fabric tag. Mixed media.

#mixedmedia #foundmaterialsart #worksonpaper #womensart #bskyart
An old wooden spool of black thread, painted on a crumpled tag from a bolt of fabric. Mixed media (paint, pastel, india ink, pencil).
July 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
vickiebird.bsky.social
Will it ever be winter and cold again? My god, I hate summer.

Sketch of pears in the late afternoon sun. A quick and scribbly moleskine study of three pears in soft pastel + graphite.

#stilllife #study #fruit #pears #pastel #graphite #mixedmedia #moleskine #sketchbook #sketch #womensart #bskyart
A pastel and graphite sketchbook study of three fat red pears. They’re vividly colored and painted in a very loose, scribbly manner. The photo is taken at an awkward and low angle to the page and the late afternoon sun dapples the far end of the photo.
July 28, 2025 at 11:44 PM
vickiebird.bsky.social
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

Sketchbook study of an eye. Mixed media (watercolor, graphite, ink).

#painting #mixedmedia #sketchbook #womensart #bskyart
Detail of a green and amber eye, looking directly at the viewer. Light is reflected in the vividly colored iris. The painting is mixed media: watercolor, graphite and ink.
July 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
vickiebird.bsky.social
I used to feel like the t-rex,
but now I’m just the frightened deer.

Brimfield, Massachusetts.

#bwphotography #brimfieldantiques #trex
A very realistic giant plastic t-rex, mouth open and teeth bared, hovers over two delicate white plastic deer at Brimfield Antiques Fair.
July 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
vickiebird.bsky.social
tattered soul and a
broken heart, you ripped apart
my love and my self.

#haiku #dailyhaiku #micropoetry #betrayal
July 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
vickiebird.bsky.social
Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

Emily Dickinson

Moleskine painting of Bram (detail). Mixed media.

#dog #chihuahua #portrait #mixedmedia #moleskine #sketchbook #womensart #oskyart
Mixed media painting of a chihuahua, portraying a close up of half his face and chest. Pops of vivid blues, greens and neon pinks highlight the painting. The little dog stares at his audience, head tilted up and nose lifted high.
July 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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fairyism.bsky.social
the gentle light,
in a cruel world.
Vertical photograph of what must be cow parsley, captured in a forest against the setting sun. Only one strand is in focus, while the background is all blurry.
July 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
vickiebird.bsky.social
you may think I’m strong,
but my appearance deceives.
in truth I’m fragile.

Me, today.

Photo of a dandelion, seed head ready to take flight on a summer afternoon, taken in my back yard somewhere in Massachusetts.

#haiku #dailyhaiku #micropoetry #fragile #dandelion #seedhead #blowball #summer
Sharply focused close up of a single dandelion seed head ready to blow away; delicate, fluffy and white. The green of a lawn, along with some large bushes and trees, blurs the background.
June 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM