Thursday, June 16, 2011

Dryadic: among beech and maple

No matter how much the old beech raised up arms
against us, we could not help but laugh,
even when it boomed and whistled.

Little forests sprang up on the elephant's foot...

The wish bone of the giants.

The dryad drew the parrot into the tree
where it stayed, dimly visible from the outside.

Lithe Willendorf Venus. Not stone but tree.

8 comments:

marja-leena said...

Yes, a Willendorf Venus as tree - amazing! A favourite image of mine in some past work. The image just came to me again the other day when reading Jean M. Auel's The Land of Painted Caves, the last in her Earth Children series.

marlyat2 said...

I bought a ceramic pendant inspired by the Venus--laughed when I saw it. The potter said nobody ever knew what it was, but that Venus: she's unmistakable!

marlyat2 said...

Is that work you are talking about on your site? I have not gone all through the different collections yet...

Robbi said...

Unmistakable Venus. How could anyone miss it?

Anonymous said...

This is such a beautiful post Marly. Those trees are amazing

Susanna

marlyat2 said...

Beeches always have so much character...

Jeffery Beam said...

What a gorgeous imagining.

marly youmans said...

Hello, dear Jeffery--

You of all people would sympathize! Poet of leaves and stones and strange eyes...