A Bright, Bright, Bright Sunshiny Day
After So Many Months
I.
After so many months the wait becomes
lonely and unbending, like March, like a
long march through a cold season, like the last
unending days before dry limbs crochet
verdant lace around the brittle darkness
of winter bark. I am a silhouette
of branches, a windbreak, a lone figure
weighted down by snow and wind, weather-scarred.
II.
Our fingers interlink and the wait lifts.
III.
Your warm breath is a breeze pulsing against
the reborn surfaces of my skin. Our
love is a dew-washed network of weft and
warp in a lush vernal forest, fragile
bud-green leaves and tender moss weaving back
and forth back and forth on a supple loom.
Our love sends delicate roots down into
the earth, tender shoots up into the light.
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3 x 3″; watercolor on paper
card #12 in a series of color swatches
2025
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Notes about poem and art:
• “After” is a sweet young poem I wrote 50 years ago, using syllabics and stanzas as my structural elements. Each line has ten syllables. The first and third stanzas have eight lines each, with stanza two as a one-line transition. As to those delicate roots and tender shoots in the poem, they’ve flourished! Dave and I will celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary in October : )
• I loved painting the vivid bright bright bright sunshiny colors of these calendula in A Brightness. Even though glowing yellow and orange are players in autumn as well, in early August they danced and shouted exuberantly in celebration of the here and now of summer.
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