4:30 a.m.
On mornings like this, as hours before dawn
I walk the dark hall of the road
with my life creaking under my feet, I sometimes
take hold of the cold porcelain knob
of the moon, and turn it, and step into a room
warm and yellow, and take my seat
at a small wooden table with a border of painted pansies,
and wait for my mother to bring me my bowl.
—Ted Kooser, Winter Morning Walks
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| Save Room for Dancing 3.5 x 5" postcard; acrylic, pencil, collage, and oil pastel on card stock* abstract 2019 |
* card stock = table number placard from Scott & Alisa's wedding reception
8 comments:
May all your days be dancing! Waltzing Dotty, waltzing Dotty!
Thanks, Carol! Dancing it is for all my days : )
The perfect prose for a full moon. And 4:30 am? But art comes when it wants to, even in the wee hours. "mostly wild" - LOVE!
So nice to know that the card of Scott and Alisa is underneath! I love the colours, Dotty, and also the words, they evoke a mystery. I still believe you should make a book with poems/paintings in it one day... ;-)!
Ted Kooser's poetry knocks me off my feet. He thinks in exquisite metaphor. This poem is one he wrote during recovery from surgery and radiation for cancer after which treatment he was told not to get sun exposure. So he walked every morning before sunrise and, as he began to feel healthier after having all but given up on reading or writing for a long spell, he began to compose poetry again, each day writing that morning's poem onto a postcard and sending it to fellow poet Jim Harrison.
I love "mostly wild" also!
Simone, thanks for your ongoing encouragement/nudges to make a book of poems and paintings : )
I love everything about making my current series of postcards from a piece of Scott & Alisa's wedding celebration!
Glad to hear you like the colors here and the mystery of the words.
Enchanting post Dotty! The words, the art, the title, what lies beneath! Bravo!
Sheila, grateful for your across-the-board sweep of affirmation for this post! Had to smile that my daughter said almost the same thing to me in a text yesterday—something about the total 'package' of this post's combined elements hit home with her, also, and it's gratifying to this painter/blogger that at least two followers had such robust responses : )
Hope you're busy generating bright cheery flowers at your end—it's 19 degrees here as I write.
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