Sarah Rooney Designs

Poetry

  • Yard Work

    When we come home we rake leavesOn your birthdayOn ThanksgivingBumbling through the front yardUp and down, up and downRaking back somber soppy foliageTo reveal startling green grass Rich and dark, like the shiny stringy bedsYou used to stuff in our Easter basketsIt feels too green, too soft, too gentle,under the dead leavesLike we’re callously ripping… Continue reading

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  • Does Mary Mind the Stained Glass?

    good Catholic girl from the suburbs is going off to college. She’s kissing her parents goodbye. She’s studying philosophy, drinking beer, kissing a boy, brushing her hair alone in her dorm.  good Catholic girl is homeless in the mountains. She’s squatting in an apartment, she’s stealing her roommate’s weed, she’s sunbathing in her underwear on… Continue reading

  • We are the Seasons

    We are the Seasons

    Painting: “Seinfeld”. Acrylic on Canvas. Sarah Rooney 2021. How lovely to have an empty mindHow lovely to empty my mind with you We snap together like magnetsAnd we dance the tulips into bloom My only dream is to live the love in my bodyHow lovely to live that love with you The soft breeze of… Continue reading