“Well,
I made you take time to look at what I saw…” – Georgia O’Keeffe
1954
she
paints the canvas
Winter Cottonwoods East V -
Winter Cottonwoods East V -
it’s
a thrifty landscape
burnt
umber
raw
sienna
mars
brown
it
adores assumptions
of
sleeping sap,
her alabaster basks us
in
the fresh winter light -
with
breath of gray
trees fill the thin air,
each knobby body
trees fill the thin air,
each knobby body
surrenders its precise edge
like fabric fraying
in
steady wind -
their stomata breaths
their stomata breaths
quench
a thirsty sky.
2004
o’Keeffe
lives in painted canvas
Winter
Cottonwoods East V,
I'm inspired with the landscape
burnt umber
I'm inspired with the landscape
burnt umber
raw
sienna
mars
brown
I’m
flush with
sandy
canyons,
weedy with tammarisk
smudged with sage, and
weedy with tammarisk
smudged with sage, and
grateful
for my assumptions
of
the Cumberland Rim -
I
swap the mirror
over
my bed for
her
naked cottonwoods
in
open sky,
they
quench a soul
thirsty
for such thrift.
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