Private Roads: High Timber
(Text of the poem below)
Three Plates / Paper Dimension: 12" x 9"
Hand-colored Etching on Handmade Watercolor Paper
with Original Poetry
Edition: 100 + 15 Artist Proofs
Unframed
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Private Roads: High Timber
This road takes you through high timber.
It flows like a red dirt river
mindful only of terrain -
just where to bend,
how to climb.
Plain, and with good purpose
it lays a course
up and up the mountain
into the cold beyond the trees -
Unaware that its signature is witnessed
by blue-black Ravens
and Red-tailed Hawks
or that it leads a procession of ardent yellow leaves
luminous in celebration
like a thousand Chinese lanterns.
© C.C. Barton
1999