Scratchboard
Saint Paul, 16 June 2010
The shape of things has always given me the most intense satisfaction -- geese in a storm,
a landfall after a long period at sea, horses in a fence corner, the eroded bank of a stream
winding through a pasture."
Darkness between
the uncommitted spaces
of a composition is
nature's foil
Whitespace is
an artery of empathy
Gestural strokes are
the blindside of tranquility
Scratchboard prints
your favored medium
Breathed balance
into solemn shapes
Your rapport with nothingness
ascends to the atmosphere
like oxygen carried by wings
of hydrogen