Small Mysteries at the Quarry Pond, with its crazy reflections, suggests a more colorful “water music” than the ocean paintings. I scribbled some observations after finishing the painting, and they turned into a poem. Enjoy!
I think I found it
Hiding here, low
In syncopated chords and
Overlapping rhythms,
Such jazzy hymns
To a tree idea
Reflected in fresh
Breeze beat water.
Zigzag trunks
And rippled patterns
Swing dizzy music
All day all summer
I want to clap
And say Amen
But that would break
The silence.
I love the way you painted the reflections in the water. Nice poem, too! Thanks for your comment, btw. I liked the comparison of yourself as a painter to classical music. I think there are a lot of that kind of similarity within art forms, and many of the same kinds of struggles that we can experience together.