Each day for the duration of Vivid Alliances, now on at the Westland Gallery,
I’ll pair and post a painting detail with a piece of original prose
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Shoreline Discourse at Big Bald Lake
I’m tracing the edge of where the lake wanders up to the shore
As I watch, it pokes a finger of reflective inquiry into the reeds
around my shins, then waits
As in any conversation where give and take occurs
my wading deeply into the nuanced whys and what abouts
amid the comings and goings of theoretical speculation
causes a complicated shadow play
so I am careful that I am listening to hear
and not to prepare my answer
For your drawing is already perfect
and the telling of it as it is
a gift
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