Georgia O\u2019Keeffe, Like an Early Blue Abstraction, 1976\/77<\/p>\n
At the end she could only see out of the edges of her eyes.
\nIt is only watercolor again, only paper.<\/p>\n
One gesture, clockwise pressure and release.
\nThe paint as it dries as the brush lifts off the end of the curves
\nscatters blue flecks into emptiness.<\/p>\n
Beneath the dark initial line blue bleeds
\nto its edge, clouds, unseeable.<\/p>\n
One slow mark stops of its own accord
\nbreathes above the water, almost touching but not
\nits sense at rest in its curved white space<\/p>\n
before the lens came to rest on you
\nbefore you gave up watercolor before you became art.<\/p>\n
And now your hand lifting again, only
\npaper, water, that same blue, only less —<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Georgia O\u2019Keeffe, Like an Early Blue Abstraction, 1976\/77 At the end she could only see out of the edges of her eyes. It is only watercolor again, only paper. One gesture, clockwise pressure and release. The paint as it dries as the brush lifts off the end of the curves scatters blue flecks into emptiness….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"issue":[7],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n