In the Desert

Dry Bed, ©2012-13. Oil, wax, ink, gold leaf, on panel with etched glass. In the Desert In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, “Is it good, friend?” “It is bitter—bitter,” he answered; “But I like it… Continue reading In the Desert

Beehive Cluster

Beehive Cluster, ©2013. Ink and watercolor on inkjet. Here Is the Beehive Here is the Beehive But where are all the bees? Hiding away where nobody sees. Here they come creeping Out of their hive, One and two and three, four, five. Anonymous

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Bogland

The Little One in the Water ©2013, inkjet print. Bogland for T. P. Flanagan We have no prairies To slice a big sun at evening– Everywhere the eye concedes to Encrouching horizon, Is wooed into the cyclops’ eye Of a tarn. Our unfenced country Is bog that keeps crusting Between the sights of the sun.… Continue reading Bogland

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Dreams in the Dusk

Day’s Loss, ©2013. Ink on paper. Dreams in the Dusk Dreams in the dusk, Only dreams closing the day And with the day’s close going back To the gray things, the dark things, The far, deep things of dreamland. Dreams, only dreams in the dusk, Only the old remembered pictures Of lost days when the… Continue reading Dreams in the Dusk

Song at Sunset

Song at Sunset, ©2012-13. Oil, ink, powdered pigment on panel with etched glass. Song at Sunset Splendor of ended day floating and filling me, Hour prophetic, hour resuming the past, Inflating my throat, you divine average, You earth and life till the last ray gleams I sing. Open mouth of my soul uttering gladness, Eyes… Continue reading Song at Sunset