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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
January 6, 2026 at 9:09 PM
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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Dance like nobody's watching;
love like you've never been hurt;
sing like nobody's listening;
live like it's heaven on Earth
December 31, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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
December 31, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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
December 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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
December 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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
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
Overhelmed by everything everywhere. And not in a good way.
October 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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
August 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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.
August 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Death. Little dogs. Dark chocolate.
August 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Reposted by vickie.bird
- after the rain, before the sun -
August 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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My painting BLACK EYED SUSAN
August 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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
August 3, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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.
July 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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
July 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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
July 28, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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
July 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I used to feel like the t-rex,
but now I’m just the frightened deer.

Brimfield, Massachusetts.

#bwphotography #brimfieldantiques #trex
July 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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
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
July 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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the gentle light,
in a cruel world.
July 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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
June 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM