From Above Water

From Above Water

I turn off the television and walk through heat waves to eat sweets from the freezer, light cigarettes, blow kisses to shadows, feel along the floor for lost treasure and end up, once again, slapping color on canvas.
I see in my head a shape and wonder where it comes from. Is this a dream, a memory, a longing, a sudden flash from subliminal visions, a past live, a sign of the future or just the mad rambling of my hands letting something flow flow flow.
I remember the first time I saw the California coastline and it was like a dream. A foggy cold day in November and figures appeared as if they were waiting for me. I wondered if that was what death was like.
I remember an image of DNA on television. I can’t quite grasp how they illustrate something like that. I remember singing once in church when I was about ten years old and I thought the organ music was energy from God. I remember seeing seasides and always knowing that I belonged in the water, was part of the water, would return to the ocean waves on time that has no time that has no shape that has everything. Washing up onto a shore. Washing away sins. Washing over naked flesh and sweeping away clothing and washing overboard the dreams as well as the struggles. Washing over sand that glistens and hills that shine in the sun that drifts lazily from mountain to valley bringing darkness. And then light. And then shadow.
Continuing. Even when it evaporates.

From Above Water is acrylic on canvas 30 in. x 40 in. July 2009

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