Thursday, 7 September 2017

(Not) Mountain: A Poem

Mountain not itself: 
sea floor and sediment 
a tectonic dream 
yet to quake into being

Mountain itself: 
orogenic, fossil-marked 
underworld in flight 
uplifted in volcanic memorial

(June 2017)

Peak, watercolours and gouache on gesso prepared paper, 2017

2 comments:

  1. Oooh, I LOVE the artwork, Therese, and the powerful words...
    Just wonderful!

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