a photograph by Sophia Wood
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Snow
by Ethel Mortenson Davis
The snow laid down
on the ground
thick and deep,
covering over
the mistakes
we made yesterday—
white covering
over red–
like the wounded deer
that winter
in the swamp
missed by tracking hunters.
He found refuge
among the cedars
in the water.
He laid still,
but spirit still moved
in his eyes
as snow
quietly covered him—
white covering
over red.
Copyright © I Sleep Between the Moons of New Mexico, 2010.
Filed under Ethel Mortenson Davis, Poetry
Cracked Sandstone
a photograph by Alazanto, Kevin Davis, our son
The Palmer Gallery at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie New York is currently displaying Kevin’s photographs in a curated show. The Vassar website can be found at http://www.vassar.edu.
Filed under Art, Photography
Empty Hands
by Ethel Mortenson Davis
You come again
with empty hands.
When I meet you
your hands have nothing for me.
Not a small desert blossom.
Not a tiny bit of driftwood.
No rock.
You could have reached down
on your walk across the desert
and picked up a small gift.
I yearn for those hands
to be generous.
My father,
although a tyrant,
always had something for me
in his large brown hands.
But you,
I will rename you
“Empty Hands.”
Tomorrow the light
that floods the high desert
will present itself to me
as my gift.
Filed under Ethel Mortenson Davis, Poetry
From the Slopes of Grand Mesa
a photograph by Ethel Mortenson Davis
Filed under Art, Ethel Mortenson Davis, Photography
Sunset at Continental Divide
a photograph by Ethel Mortenson Davis
Filed under Art, Ethel Mortenson Davis, Photography
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