Summer Landscape

Summer Landscape

Canvas board, 24x20, liquid acrylics, gesso

A Place In The Woods

by William Stafford

An early place-   come near and look-

a place where light spreads its wide white hand;

from the air true shapes come- triangle,

circle, and a kind of line not yet found.

In your life you meet only flaws and whatever

drops into form by chance; and your hand

from chance reaches its way toward eternity,

performing its part of all your failures........

You get used to that, and most of the time

what comes is all right, but now your hand

here in this early place where the glow

of day passes a certain part of becoming-

Wants true dawn.