8/10/11

Evening Dance

Here is the place where loveliness keeps house.

Between the river and the wooded hills.

Here you may meet with beauty. 

Photo Lisa Porter

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Photo Lisa Porter

Photo Lisa Porter

Photo Lisa Porter

Photo Lisa Porter

Here she sits gazing upon the moon,

or all the day tuning a wood-thrush flute,

remote, unseen;

Photo Lisa Porter

Photo Lisa Porter

Photo Lisa Porter

Photo Lisa Porter

Photo Lisa Porter When the storm is out,

it is she who flits from rock to rock,

a form of flying spray,

shouting, beneath the leave's tumultuous green.

Madison Cawein 1867- 1914

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Photos, Lisa Porter

From the book, A Taste of the Sweet Apple

by Joanna Holt Watson