Mar 25, 2011

This Apple: A piece from the archives.


This apple breaks its skin under my teeth, cracking wet percussion mingles with Ma* pouring Bach into my rain-lit room. I sit cross-legged, red-socked, in thick corduroys and an old chair, remembering...now.
* Yo Yo Ma

This is a large painting in tempera on banner paper. I find it interesting that I was painting crows back then, too. I never really decided to paint crows all the time I just kept working with poems that starred crows, and my poems have always come from what I notice around me that I find particularly beautiful.

2 comments:

Dale said...

:-) This is wonderful!

Uma said...

Hmmmm.... the bliss of biting into an apple...