These are recent works that are still coming into the full form of understanding. They hover beyond the fathomable; in the outer reaches of mind beyond and outside words. Mythology is a metaphor for our reality. And words can help clarify the tangible form that bubbles out from the subconscious. In poetry, like painting, one can attempt an explanation of that which does not easily cross the boundary between experience and explanation. Perhaps through art there can exist a bridge. A link to something unseen yet hovering just there; the thing unsaid that is still blossoming along the periphery. Perhaps it grows more vivid with every attempt at failed description. Here there is more to articulate in paint and more to be said. From this place of seeking, paintings are birthed as the unknowable and intangible is pushed, pulled, and coerced into form. When we make inner power visible, we can sometimes allow others to grow new eyes to see.

<sup>Song of the Birches


The birches sang of longing

As the way I held to the path

grew false, intangible

In its dreamlike coating


Time became corrupted

the pace of my steps

wove the pathway outward

Into certainty


When I left the forest

I kept only the eyes
watching

And the song I sang back

As reality was strung more vivid,

More fantastic


A seasonless winter

In the webbing of mind</sup>

<sup>How I Remember It, A Poem


The forest pulled inward

To funnel my senses

Across parallel experiences

Into a column of attention


It held me entranced

A vortex of heightened perception

To stand witness

As time became corrupted, trivial


My previous life awash

With a false overlay

As the way I held to the path

Grew intangible


And the pace of my steps

Wove a new future outward

Into unyielding certainty

A voice, blue as open sky


Not a whisper,

Nor command, but a well spring

Spoke of a future that is known

Held there


In the reaching tapestry

In the peeling bark

In the ancient moss

I am not watched nor watching


I participate

In my stillness

Every sense equal


I walk away 

I walk back 

I walk toward

Home

Changed</sup>