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These poems have been composed in response to the beautiful worlds of Georgia O'Keeffe. Originally in a chapbook published by Imp Press in 1992, I have felt frustrated at not being able to include reproductions of such magnificence.
How I would love it if I could live in the worlds she created!
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- hortensia anderson
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The Winter Road, 1963


the long, dark sweep
of time
thins out
in places
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the end of the road
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an unfinished zed.
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Ladder To The Moon, 1958


awake
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afloat
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on the ocean
the endlessness
of blue
merges
with the sky
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a pale golden ladder
in my mind -
the escape
from my body's pain
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some of the rungs
reflected
by a half-moon
created
of silken breeze
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will hold me aloft
until reaching
the dark side
of peaceful sleep.
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Cebolla Church, 1945

grass burns out
in places, it is
one o'clock.
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nothing cries
nothing peels off
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once open,
unfolding
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the door has closed.
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today's sermon.

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An Orchid, 1941

heart poured
from a bottle
of chartreuse -
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your petals silk scarves
ragged from a night of dancing.
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only something drunk
can have been
so beautiful.
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Jack In The Pulpit, Number 4, 1930

leafy petals
unfurl
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waiting
at the
pulpit
for
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thunder and lightning
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a storm in bloom
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awaiting rain
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the baptism
in the sky
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Wave, Night, 1928

the sky floats
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stars foam
at the sand's pink edge
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as the sky
stays contained
as if mirrored
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her darkness
heightens
at her heart
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light makes waves
from the moon
on the shore.

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