The Big Show

The BIG SHOW started on Saturday, September 21, 2019. Randy’s piece, The Last Boat, was accepted in the juried exhibit, Global Warming Is Real at the Museum of Encaustic Art. The exhibit continues through October 27th, 2019.

The opening was unlike any other. The Roaming Writers Group from Santa Fe wrote poetry and prose about most pieces. Randy was honored when the writer Karen Winston presented her work, inspired by The Last Boat. Her moving work, describing how the magnificent apple tree on Canyon Road might be lost due to global warming, will appear here soon.

 APPLE TREE ON CANYON ROAD

The apple tree is drooping.
Leaves sagging, crying for nurturing
Today, I have strung the garden hose
To the driveway,
Wrapped the cord around a stick,
Placed a heavy boulder
Secured the nozzle near the roots.

I left it four hours,
Cool water seeping into the earth,
Bathing the parched tree with manna
Swirling around like a tide pool
Drenching dripping love.
And this morning, the tree is jubilant.
Its leaves reach above the dry dust
Its limbs carry the morning air
Combines with the clouds
Gathering puffy white 
Above the roof.

Oh sing little apple tree
To the mother who hears your voice,
Which sustained you
Gives you back life.
Drink drink little apple tree
Hold on to your green fruit
Until the time of their birth,
Not a premature birth that
Leave the little green orbs
Picked apart by thirty birds
Decimated by insects. 

We loved meeting a new friend from California, Kelly V., who attended the opening. She honored us by writing this piece relating to The Last Boat:

A prayer

Like noahs ark

Our prayers will carry us across 

These turbulent waters

That rise around us

Kelly V.