Thursday, July 29, 2010

Tree Play Images

I started taking these pictures to use as source material about two years ago when I was gearing up for NAPLWRIMO 2008. I was specifically looking for attributes of the tree that could be anthropomorphized. Warning: Some photos may induce "the Feeling" in those susceptible.

Heart

Veins

eye

i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any--lifted from the no
of all nothing--human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)
- e.e. cummings

3 comments:

DL said...

Gorgeous!
Did I ever show you the Madrona woman photo I took ?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/imtboo/4006402785/sizes/o/

xoxo!

Susannah Martin said...

Feeling induced - but in a heartbreaking way. These photos and the poem... yes.

E. Hunter Spreen said...

Dorothy:

She's amazing. Reminds me of Bernini's sculpture of Daphne except your madrona woman looks happy.