diamonds and shadows soft amber washes spread in layers of no substance across snow
ethereal existence distant agent invisible except as painterly effects flickering through my consciousness as I move past and always deeper and deeper into its art
push glide push glide North
then West through the woods
shadows softening disappearing pricks of light all around
original artist teaching complex mechanical trade color and light a billion degrees of difference between brilliance and none
between pure light and darkness and always the meaning
of contrast and shade
the lines not a single reality but a thousand
the background endless muted detail
precision of broad brush and thin
economy of time and change
captured
then gone
revered sage so near it’s a ball
dangerous to look at directly
and
teaching always teaching