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| Teotitlán del Valle |
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| Purepecha woman, Michoacán |
A couple of years ago, my friend Greg took a photo of the altar I have for Marie in our bedroom. I wrote the poem below to accompany his photograph. Happy sketching Marie!! May your lines continue to cross borders and realms, and bring people together in harmony.
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| Greg's photo |
Below is a link to a slideshow I have posted on Youtube and on my Facebook page. It is 7 1/2 minutes in length. A bit long, but then Marie deserves it!
A Sketch
from the Other Side
From her altar in our bedroom
she smiles at me with pen in hand,
sketching with her eyes
what her hand no longer can.
The glazed Oaxaca-toned urn
that holds her coarse gray ashes,
can
no longer contain her.
She descends at will
the narrow black ladders
that adorn the sides of the urn,
a portal from another realm traversing
the void between life and death.
New pages sketched in thin air
capture the moment as viewed
from the “other side.”
4 comments:
Ah, I truly just had the thought of today and Mari moments before this post arrived ... So I was very pleased to spend the time with her and her drawings. Thank you for this gift, Dick. I needed it AND her spirit, which I hope to always carry with me. --Christi
What a beautiful poem and tribute, Dick. Thank you.
Greg and I just watched the slide show together. So beautiful and so powerful. Most of Marie's drawings were new to us and convey her strengths as an artist and a person. What a gift you have given us--and what a gift Marie gave us!
A very beautiful tribute to a dear woman who touched so many of our lives with her generous, loving joie de vivre. It is inspiring to feel your loving devotion to her and your cherishing of her and the beautiful life that you shared together. It is beautiful to feel the light, color and reverence of the whole hearted way that she embraced and sketched people's integrity with harmonious relationship with the mother earth
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