"Just Connect”
She gets it.
Her empathic green eyes
convey that and more.
Her work hangs
in a simplicity of white mat
and unstained frame --
Trees-- rendered
in a graphite-pencil miasma
of roots and cloisonne bark --
portraits without
background or shadow --
an innermost story and
its utter generosity
translated by a
sympathetic hand.
We discuss the ancients:
sequoia, bristlecone pine.
We agree, “There’s nothing
better than a wrecked tree--"
We share the urgency
to capture their expressive
filigree from a hundred
different angles --
We exchange. We engage.
And in parting, we go in peace.
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Martha T. Terrell
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You do get it. Absorb the life that remains
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