Our Roots Will Always Be Tangled

11” x 14”

Oil and acrylic on panel

“There is so much we leave behind
but 
a piece of me will stay here
all the days of my life
watching the forest grow around us
while we remain frozen
ever smaller amid the towering boughs 
that crawl upward
with each passing day.
So let us so be so still
my queen of hearts,
here 
where our roots will always be tangled
In the thin March light
where my tender core
is as soft
as yours.”