Thursday, March 30, 2023

Wintersea

Wintersea
Trompe-l'œil L’Assemblage by Michael Douglas Jones  ©2023
Original artwork available at Gallery 322


   Once, we worked the wintersea, along the coast of Chesapeake; we learned the rhythm of the days, and kept them through our years.

    Eastern horizon quickening, lightening; sea of sun rising, readying, raising the mainsail of morning, as dawn’s winter wind roars like stevedores on the dock of this day. Swaying ship masts of high hill pines creak and caution, as icy hatch hinges slam and shudder, as flags snap and shiver. The crew of crows comes aboard from the valley, cawing commands; all is ready before the mast, this day may get under way. Day breaks cold against my face charting a northwest course; with the western moon over my left shoulder. I turn and face into this fine adventure.

                       ~ Michael Douglas Jones


 

 

Thursday, March 23, 2023

Cover of Cottonwhite

Cover of Cottonwhite
Trompe-l'œil L’Assemblage by Michael Douglas Jones  ©2023
Original artwork available at Gallery 322





   East of Reich’s Ford, the slightest snowfall overnight, fresh cover of cottonwhite, and a clean page for the day's poetry.

    Up and over the ridge, written on the paperwhite of fresh snow, the meandering graceful script of buck and doe.

                       ~ Michael Douglas Jones

                                    Parcel №16


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