21.6 x 30 in. (55 x 75 cm.) |
An Autumn With You
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An Autumn With You
Watercolor on paper, 2018
For painter, Phong Trinh, this painting evokes the poem, The Pond Digger.
Days in our school yard
Shade of you took my soul
Under a tree, our own sky
Combing hair, slender fingers,
long and shine
Leaving school seats behind
In an empty space
I stare ..
No more school yard plays
No more days to meet
The finger you laid on my heart
is still there
Pick up a spade
Dig and dig, I begin to dig
“No, I do not need a contour
A drawing, a measurement
or a plan”
I’ll make a pond, fill in with tears
I’ll make a pond in the shape,
the shape of you
I’ll make a pond to keep, to hold
With my soul.
It’s the pond
of promise and dreams
The promise I made at thirteen
in my dreams
At night, under the moon light
Arch of the bridge will make a ring,
for your finger,
to put our souls together
Forever
Till the day,
Very low down
lower than the first stone of the bridge
I was laid down,
The pond on my body
like you were on top of me
Like the bridge across the pond
I’ll put my arms around you,
holding tight,
tighter than I hold my life
as one, reality and eternity
have come together,
forever.
No, no more empty space
for me to escape.
$10,000.00
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