painting: In the Hands of Time ::: poem: Hand-Me-Down of Hand-Me-Downs ::: (14-15) [16-17]

Science-Nature: birth-aging  ||  History-Culture: generations  ||  Community: family ||  Existing Painting & Poem Reflect Each Other  ||   Medium: acrylic on canvas

poem text:

It is privilege beyond merit
to see a hand-me-down of hand-me-downs
of shell and flesh security.

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painting: Snowlight ::: poem: Let Beautiful Winter, poem: My Common Stove ::: (16-17) [18-19]

Science-Nature: Season-winter  ||  History & Culture: wealth in the work of others  ||  Experience: observation-contemplation  ||  Community: family-neighbor-stranger ||  Thought-Feeling-Spirit: wishful, prayerful, hopeful  || Poem (Let B...) Inspired by Painting  ||  Existing Painting & Poem (My Common ...) reflect each other  ||  Medium: acrylic on canvas

Poems text:

Let beautiful winter spiral up

from each autumn's gold

to uncoil gladly

into same earthen chalice

from which dutiful summer must spring.

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My stove knows how to burn its firewood,
how to respond
to me who knows so little of what it knows,
to me who does not know how to make a stove.

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painting: Aubergine ::: poem: Gardens of Pleasant Regret ::: (22-23) [24-25]

Experience: chance observation || Thought-Feeling-Spirit: simple pleasure & beauty, mortality, wishful-hopeful || Existing Painting & Poem Reflect Each Other || Medium: acryllic on Yupo || Art in Illustration

poem text:

I wish to see the garden,
the gardens—the tenth of an acre around my house—

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painting: Sun on Their Faces (detail) ::: poem: Turn to Sun ::: (32-33) [34-35]

Science-Nature: earth-spin-orbit, Buckminster Fuller, Helio-photo-tropism  ||  History & Culture: rural towns & fields  ||  Experience: long drive  ||  Thought-Feeling-Spirit: wistful conjecture  ||  Existing Painting & Poem Reflect Each Other  || Medium: acrylic on canvas

poem text:

This early morning
he passes from Mississippi headwater
out of woodland and wetland
across the Red River onto North Dakota
—rolling plain of North Dakota—

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painting: Postcard to My Children ::: poem: Shadow of Our Photographer ::: (36-37) [38-39]

Experience: as visitor tourist  ||  Community among strangers  ||  Thought-Feeling-Spirit: wistful conjecture  ||  Existing Painting & Poem Reflect Each Other  ||  Medium: watercolor plein air

poem text:

How many people have come here
once in one lifetime?
from other continents and this,
from down the road a bit,

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drawing: Watchdog ::: poem: Good Day, Passers-by ::: (38-39) [40-41]

Science-Nature: prairie dog, man-nature-conflict, interdependent species, habitat conservation  ||  History & Culture: "taming" of prairie  ||  Community: among-with animals  || Thought-Feeling-Spirit: attitude adjustment, concern  || Existing Painting & Poem Reflect Each Other  || Pencil Study

poem text:

Good day, Passer-by,
I watch you pass.
I am pleased when you stop.

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painting: Swaying Stalk, painting: Harvest Ready ::: poem: My Weather ::: (46-47) [48-49]

Science Nature: seasons, weather, grow-harvest food  ||  Thought-Feeling-Spirit: work-enjoyment  ||   Existing Painting & Poem Reflect Each Other  ||  Acrylic+medium on Tile

poem text:

In the spring,
farmer and I
conflict over rain,
as do I
with the me
in my garden.

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