Stayin’ Alive (Thursday Doors on Friday)

Sometimes nowhere is the only place
you have to go.  Your feet, lacking wings,
keep you earthbound.  But then music
appears from nowhere and occupies all the space
in your mind–music that moves your feet to sing,
tracing patterns that confirm you’re alive–
consumed completely by the melody, the rhythm of music
that needs nowhere and nothing but your feet to arrive.

I was looking for the Brigid door I featured last week in order to get a photo with the entire face on the left. So I was just walking around my neighborhood–the sun was out!–best to take advantage of it. I did find the door (see photo at end of post), but down the block there were more interesting buildings, and these birds caught my eye immediately.

The house itself seemed to be under construction, so the doorway was boarded over. But the beautiful details of the facade were readily observable.

Lots of guardians–I always like that.

A little research showed that there was an attempt about 10 years ago to both sell and rent the house, and that it last sold for 9,5 million in 2018. If you want to see what the lavish interiors looked like in 2015, when the asking rent was $30,000/month, you can see them here. At the moment it’s being “modernized” by a developer called Holliswood–as you can’t landmark interiors, I shudder to think what that means. But at least they evidently intend to market it as a single residence instead of breaking it up into tiny apartments.

Here’s the Brigid door with all its guardians.

And the poem? It’s a san san for my W3 prompt, which asked the participants to pick either a song about dancing, or a song they like to dance to for inspiration. Its only relation to the doors is the fact that often when I walk around looking for doors there’s a song stuck in my head, and I find my feet taking on the rhythm of the music. The song I picked was one I recently heard and it’s been earwormed in my head ever since.

If you have time, do watch the video for a time capsule of both clothing and dance moves. And of course, it’s still a great song. And perfect for dancing.

And there are always more doors to find at Thursday Doors, hosted by Dan Antion.