oil on canvas over board
resin water, sculpted foam, oak frame
80x46 inches
2020
Eddies unspool fine scarlet strings,
Cantilevered spine, immersion begins.
Alizarin crimson untwines, Dolly Vardan collides.
In playful sport, they seek and hide.
Arching vertebrae of myth and bone,
protect Cutthroat and German Brown alone.
Fauve fingertips stake metacarpal cape.
anointed sediment touched, cause crustacean unsafe.
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Knitted steeple bows above, shadow stream’s floor,
swift music hums, ‘yearning amore’.
Violet muse, the wandering kind
dwelling in mist, ether, and mind.
Perpetual dream in an endless night
awake nor dead, matters naught.
Craving Hooved beast, her fantasy sought,
A lone Satyr tenderly caught.
Bosom’s warm cauldron now to restore,
Brook trout ascend and Rainbows soar.
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Feminine muse, ERATO wanders free,
child of powerful Zeus, and Mnemosyne.
Cloned of dorsal fishes, with shape-shifting allure,
irresistible force, stalking centaur procured.
Appeased alas, she enters the creek,
Siren’s magnetism, Aphrodite’s beauty competes,
prefers teasing trout, shiny and sleek.
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ERATO traversed centuries of depiction,
Appears here alas in oil paints lustrous fine fiction,
Artist fingers pinch brush, a conception in paint, depicting sleeps intricate vision.
Where Species swim glazed with careful precision.
Muse in supple forms tying Grayling tatted fin,
sojourning continues her legend of sin.
The painter unseen at vanishing point, behind dream’s pale light,
Dwelling place of one artist acolyte.