The Battle of the Bloom
Notice how she has ripped her dressto shreds in order to lasso the bloom and drag it to where she has the notion might besafe. Which clearly it isn’t. All this is happening in the dark rainof ...
A quote from John
This is not me talking here, this is from John Eldridge’s Book, the Sacred Romance. I find it noteworthy….. The Wildness of GodWe live our lives before the wild, dangerous, unfettered and ...
The Late Bloomer
The Late Bloomer (44″ x 60″) Watercolor and ink applied with a brush and a stick. “Late bloomers are prone to caution, to much reluctance. Late and bloom is a curious combination, an ...
Spring Fever
She belongs in the War of the Seasons collection.She is the same size as Winter Resisting Spring,on rice paper. Enormous. (approx. 25″x35″) Unlike Winter, Spring is content and expectant, ...
Tiptoe
(This is cropped from the center of a much larger painting)In a season of acute uncertainty, the woman came first to my mind. I saw her on tiptoe. I saw her shoes thrown over her shoulder. I did not ...
Winter Resisting Spring
War of the Seasons SPRING FEVER “Now you will have noticed that nothing throws him into a passion so easily as to find a tract of time which he reckoned on having at his own disposal unexpectedly ...
Be the Truth We Say We
The river is a heaven-cried tear only Jesus turns to stone. We are hatched from ice, born from glaciers. But we are not water. This is what we must remember: The water is other than us. But we can ...
Walking Down the Same
Last Night Last Night We were walking down the same road and we were both crying, Both relieved and disappointed at being alive. We did not hold hands. Did not touch. There was no embracing. And our ...
About Fire
I watched the flame go out. It happened so gradually, without last minute sputters and spits. I sank to the temptation of pretending its warmth. Instead of naming the dark, I searched for a match. I ...
Who Doesen’t Know
The baby slept in the bed of a pickup. The bed of a pickup is not a safe place for a baby to sleep. Who doesn’t know this? The bed of a pickup is open to meteors, child snatchers, chronic ...
Consider the Flower
Consider the flower Don’t pick it Don’t make it into a movie Don’t use it as a tool Consider its shadow Consider its holy petals consider a woman consider a man consider lips and ...
On The Hunt
On the Hunt He has looked everywhere. He has looked in the heavens, in nature, in power, in relationships, in success, in symbols and dreams and stories and song. He ...