017.365 - summary

imagine
Georgia O’Keeffe alive
after her death
her spirit vast enough
to see the mountains as her canvas
for a sequence of miniatures
to that vast spirit
her hand
bringing to life
the details of a lily
her hand again
brushing the structure of a longhorn’s skull
into the sky
her image of the Old People
arising from the mudhole
the very femaleness
of a flower’s organs
the ruggedness
of the mountains themselves
a portrait of herself laughing
sometime in her fifties
or herself again
looking at a photograph
of Steiglitz
all arranged along a stretch
of mountains
to be seen by passengers
looking east in afternoons
from I-25
in southern New Mexico
or from space
imagine
Georgia O’Keeffe alive
brush in hand
looking for her next project