NP Of tea, of light, of inkstains on brown paper

[J Tracy]

I did not remember that images don’t work on the list, since I had gotten some real friendly ones from one of the listers.  If anyone cares to have a look at my Tea drawing  or others in the series I will send some jpgs privately.  My website has a wide variety of work, mostly leaded glass.  https://www.brooksideglassworks.com/index.html

> On Mar 23, 2025, at 6:43 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
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> I have been workng for a long time on a series of ink drawings and now poems to go with them as a book. 
> One of my earliest poetic heroes was the beat poet Kenneth Patchen, who in his later years, did wonderful drawings to go with his hand-lettered poems.
> 
> so I just finished ( i’m pretty sure) the 17th poem for the facing page of the 17th drawing. ( They all connect)
> and noticed the of, of sentence at the end which reminded me of my last post about Saure’s face. So what the hell, here it is. 1st the drawing and then the poem. Yes I love tea, Especially matcha.  This one is the middle of 3 drawings and poems. The core theme of the 3 is light and vision through water, through eyes, and through glass lenses.
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> Tea
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> High country cloud forest
> wet grass, white flowers, green tea leaves
> birdsong 
> the winged ones sail the winds of their aerial playground.
> 
> Shafts of light shift and slide and dapple dance
> across the hills,
> along the shine and shade of rows of tea,
> filling the pupils and rims of bird eyes, 
> bending and gathering, pooling and flowing through 
> the contours of a glass teacup,
> spilling in waves 
> over the woven checkerboard 
> tabletop map of mind,
> slicing open the moon,
> pouring through the windows 
> of dragonfly wings,
> connecting 
> memory  to moment
> morning to night,
> awakening the seeds 
> within
> 
> to sprout and rise from  compression of earthy density 
> into  soaring patterns of airborne delight
> and waterborne wonder
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