To be forever beautiful,
aging with a patina of
centuries – not Dorian
but a landscape of
green meadows with
a small stream where
deer would drink
and the woodsman’s ax
would never fall.
Perhaps the lighting would
change subtly and one
or two would notice
and say Is that picture
more foggy than I remember?
And yet again, No,
it’s a sunny day.
And she, of the painting,
drifting on the stream,
would say
Ah ha!
and smile.
Mara Buck writes and paints in the Maine woods. Her novel Highway To Oblivion is a Short-Listed Finalist for The Faulkner-Wisdom Competition and her poem Charmeuse has been named second in the Carpe Articulum Literary Review 2010 Poetry Competition and is published in the Autumn edition. Other poems may be seen in the anthology Vwa: Poems For Haiti, in Caper Literary Journal, and in Poets For Living Waters. She is the creator of the gallery-sized installation “A Year In Oblivion.” More of her writing can be found here.