Catherine in Chapala with her earth
tones—palm-tree green to varied tans to red
and violet bougainvillea—each worth
gold’s value to artists. All this added
to her earth-tone eyes capturing each shade
of land and town walls as warm sun rises
and descends and rises, sacred light made
for inspiration. And you in progress
at your shop with sky hues of ebony,
gray and azure columning new surface
for old chest of drawers, our epiphany:
scarred, worn wood resurrected and embraced
as we have been—a madrigal possessed
with truth: how Art and Memory are blessed.
Roger Armbrust
December 25,
2012
