Autumn Night in the Country is a painting by RC DeWinter which was uploaded on July 22nd, 2015.
Autumn Night in the Country
This painting & the accompanying poem have been published in the July 2015 issue of Garden Tripod.... more
by RC DeWinter
Title
Autumn Night in the Country
Artist
RC DeWinter
Medium
Painting - Digital Oils-paintography
Description
This painting & the accompanying poem have been published in the July 2015 issue of "Garden Tripod."
http://issuu.com/gardentripod/docs/garden_tripod_33
Copyright 2015 RC deWinter ~ All Rights Reserved
Country Mouse
A soft wind blows this October night,
ruffling the copper leaves of the maples.
They rustle like taffeta, a crisp dryness
that does nothing to disguise the burring
of the nightjar that haunts the garden,
hunting moths and such.
I imagine it will be leaving soon
for somewhere warmer;
with any luck it will be back in spring.
Apart from these sounds I hear nothing
but the occasional creak of a floorboard
as the cat, an ever-vigilant sentry,
patrols the house, on the prowl
for any small stray creature that may have
found its way in.
I think back to life in the city;
a caul of nostalgia drops lightly onto my shoulders
as I remember the electric excitement
of those sidewalks crackling with neon,
the music washing out of the open doors
of the blues bars and jazz clubs,
the neverending stream of chatter,
a pastiche of languages that, if could be painted,
would surely be a wild, vividly-colored
abstract swirling with vitality.
And the food!
A smorgasbord that never closed:
breakfast for dinner,
pushcart goodies for those on the run,
insufferably elegant bistros,
Chinese at dawn if you wanted it.
And museums and libraries, theaters,
street performers, panhandlers,
mounted police in the park along with
fast talkers hustling knockoffs,
all enveloped in a cacophony of
horns and whistles and buses
belching their way up and down and across
the grid of streets and avenues.
I'm beginning to feel I've made the wrong decision,
leaving that array of stimulation, the diversity,
the dazzling choices in every arena,
for this quiet place where one can go for days
without hearing another voice, without seeing another face,
unless one makes the effort to go into town.
I need to remind myself why I am here,
so I step out into the garden, late flowers still blooming,
and hear the last of the crickets sawing away,
catch the faint tang of saltwater in the breeze,
and, looking up into a sky still richly blue,
unpolluted by the megawatts of commerce,
see the stars, too many to count, holding court
around a moon so full and round
if it were a melon it would be overripe.
And that's it. I remember why.
It's that midnight blue blanket encrusted with stars.
Even with a counting house full of gold,
I could never buy that sky in the city.
~ copyright 2015 RC deWinter
Reimagined and painted in digital oils from an original photograph, Melbourne Australia, November 2014.
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Thanks to the group hosts for their encouragement and support.
Uploaded
July 22nd, 2015
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Comments (83)
Maria Hunt
Gina, I love the treatment on this... almost like brushwork.. Congratulations on your Feature in 1 Weekly - ALL Stars. F/L
Alana Thrower
Congratulations on being chosen Artist of the Week in the group Sky and or Clouds! Lovely digital painting! l/f
HH Photography of Florida
Congrats on your feature in Artists of the Week in the Sky and or Clouds group. Lovely digital painting. L