Wild Atlantic

"Wild Atlantic" - mixed media on paper, 22" x 14".  Inquiries.  Available at the Olive Stack Gallery.

Time is racing by.
Only one week to go.
Let's chase the setting sun.
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Stone, mud, bones.
Read the names.
​Listen.

Rooks watch the setting sun
from treetops
​night is falling

Silent shadow angels
sentinels
hark and hush

The names!  The names!
Long gone
eroded
crumbled
​shrouded

The sun is gone
but light remains
we remember, we remember
​the flickers whisper

Sadness here,
yet comfort 
lay your weary bones to rest
while we remember.

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​On this, the  first holiday since the passing of our dad, the first Christmas without parents at all, there is comfort - comfort and joy - in the gathering of the sisters in a land far away.  New memories, new moments, washed in remembering, made holy.