Monday, June 10, 2013

Trees like..........................



Elaine Leigh's painting brought another painting to mind, and so this poem.



What The Artist Sees: 
 
these trees like the ladies of Avignon,
shamelessly flaunting  themselves,
streaming earth to heaven,
arms thrown upward, presenting  so fiercely. 

In their assemblage: formidable, fearsome,
the usual meaning is altered,
(a shared purpose outside today’s understanding),
their collective nakedness guarding some primeval dogma.


 



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