Pandemonium  some gallery visitors find fiery hell in russet swirls but I see dust near Kokomo where gardens highways tombstones glare red clouds pervade parched August air hang dance in sunbeams and disappear mammals wear features human faces blur brittle glacial blue no world ends in ice instead of hell or paradise a circus tent pitched on dusty stubble empty town songless birds and elephants slow down shadow women cling to edges never know poets in their El Dorado circus clowing high trapezes open cages bareback lust elephants remember perfect nonsense searching women's faces birds fall into dust JoAnne Growney-- December 2003 Back to JoAnne's Home page

"Blue Ladies and Elephants" acrylic/sand/canvas -- 1995 by Florence Putterman by Florenc e                                  Putterman ace Back to Putterman's NUMINOUS LEGENDS