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."

~Francis Lee Jaques

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