Geese #2
33"x19" encaustic on board
2005

trapeze and a moment off
48"x36" encaustic on board
2005

you do not have to be good
14 "x18" encaustic with graphite and oil pastel
2005 (scroll down to read the poem Wild Geese by Mary Oliver)

C's Rain Dance
32"x24" encaustic on board
2005

oh
12 "x16" encaustic on board
2006

M Doing the Haley's Comet Number
30"x24" encaustic on board
2005

The Works #2
32"x38" encaustic on board
2005

The Works
48"x24" encaustic and oil on board
2005

 

 

Wild Geese

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting-
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.