Life in the Time of COVID-19, Part 19
Jim Lavilla-Havelin’s short and to-the-point poem is a wise little fable. Its companion here is Lucia LaVilla-Havelin’s delightful piece “Look Skyward” (hand-embroidered cotton floss on linen, vintage postcard). The rabbits don’t see it but danger is chasing them….
Run Rabbit: A Cautionary and Prepositional Tale
for School Administrators      Â
By Jim LaVilla-Havelin
             Fox, blood-mouthed, slinks
              out from under after
              feasting on the rabbit
                             young.
              The older, faster, wiser,
              have made it to the
                   cactus patch
                             where
              they shelter in place.
The long title is a perfect segue into a sparse poem. Jim LaVilla-Havelin is a San Antonio treasure.
Which came first, the poetry or the embroidered piece?
Jean, they came separately. The embroidered piece was never intended as an “illustration” for the poem.
It just happened to fit. It is part of a series of embroidered pieces that Lucia has done, which include and work off of
imagery in vintage postcards.
In terms of sheer chronology, the embroidered piece is more than a year older than the little poem.
Jim