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Erin McGee Ferrell

Professionally a Visual Artist for over 30 years, I occasionally have poems that come to me. Please look at my paintings, ArtistAMERICAN.com, and understand that both the pen and the paintbrush do the same job. One I am a master of, the other...poetry...a novice. The past year I have dealt with Breast Cancer. My collection of works on this site reflect this unexpected and difficult journey. The Pirate Crew Paper Doll Collection is a Breast Cancer Educational Tool featuring Ms. Mastectomy, Ms. Chemotherapy, Ms. Radiation, Ms. Oophorectomy, and Ms. BRCA2. These works are dedicated to all who have walked in this path.

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The Summer Of Sour And Uncontrolled Chip Munching

Yes, a just opened bag of cape cod sour cream and onion chips, halfway disappeared in 15 minutes.

This, as well as Farm Stand Sauerkraut, on tap sour beers and Haribo sour gummies.

Sure, I throw in the occasional greens, but salty & sour are the themes for Summer 2016.

My taste buds reflecting the sour struggle of being a career painter and many salty tears.

Craving sour over bitter, over sugar.

German heritage making its presence known with a punch at age 43?

Erin McGee Ferrell

Q U I E T Sunday

Fiona, upstairs with tiny boxes of cereal, watching a movie.

All cuddled up, warm with hugs and kisses.

Even at 13, she loves, laughs and clings.

Rainy mist at 8am.

Walk up and down the hill with blow horn for bears.

Now with NPR and hot coffee, bible and kale smoothie.

by Erin McGee Ferrell

I'm NOT Buying Soup

I used to buy soup...

For the food offering basket at church.

I used to be a foster parent...

Sacrificing time, money, and emotions for children needing a home I used to give away gum and coin.

by Erin McGee Ferrell

Bag Of Chips

Today, I bought a bag of chips.

Not veggie or healthy but the real thing.

March is hanging on.

I'm loving the fight for sanity till spring. So good all winter with exercise and Vitamin D, thinking positive thoughts and trying to embrace the suck.

My strength is breaking; fortitude melting.

No green in sight.

Erin McGee Ferrell

STILL...VIEW

The 6am view from the bedroom, leads my eyes to quiet graves by sunrise.

Frantic thoughts and heart and panic attacks.

Rest my soul, my spirit, my mind, my heart, my life.

Let go of results, success, achievement, fame.

Be still with the spreading of WAX, punching in data, the baking of cookies.

Take note of my daughter's morning kiss, my husband's sacrifice, the doctor's empathy, the sunshine and my father's perfume gift.

Erin McGee Ferrell

I Still Have My Wart

Ok people, the wart is still there.

Defiantly stuck to my toe.

Mocking 5 months of Chemo, drugs and radiation.

If anything, I expected this ugly bump to shrivel and die along with any fast mocking cancer cells - but no, like me, it is stubborn.

The wart apparently is here to stay.

Mimicking my own stubborn determination.

by Erin McGee Ferrell

Hot-Dogs & Beer

ICE Cold Beer with a hot-dog smothered in mustard, ketchup, onions and kraut.

National Hebrew Kosher steamed from Costco.

Hot day with chips on the side.

Sliced cold watermelon.

Too much of a good thing gets old.

Erin McGee Ferrell

October SAD

Cool, quiet and sad.

Getting ready for winter seclusion.

Aloneness.

Imprisoned by cold.

A moat of ice surrounding this tone castle.

My prince yelling at me and ordering me to love this dark and frozen season.

Erin McGee Ferrell

POTATO Women

Women without hair.

Face rounded by a bit of bloat.

We all start to look the same.

Pale and Lumpy with ears and bumpy head.

We are Potato Women. It is what it is.

by Erin McGee Ferrell

PirateCrew

Thank you all who have lived to tell the tale.

You bedraggled crew of people with missing parts.

Lopped off by voyages into the unknown.

Walked the plank into dark waters.

Fed Chemo and now wear a scarf.

Talking around grog of the sickness of sway.

by Erin McGee Ferrell

Early Sunday Morning

Fresh New York Times,

Nate’s French Press Coffee,

Children in good places,

College daughters’ computer fixed,

My mom’s visit and her tulip gift robe with space heater and journal,

Sunshine through windows,

Erin McGee Ferrell

If I Were a Doctor, I Would...

Ok docs... Learn the sandwich technique.

Teachers, team leaders and parents all know the value of gathering bad between good when delivering results.

Instead of starting the sentence with, "Your bone density scan showed osteopenia", I would say...

"The ligaments around your elbows are the most fabulous ligaments I've ever seen. Look at the shape of your ear canals...perfect specimens of the human race!"

by Erin McGee Ferrell