ABOUT THE ARTWORK:

in an untitled poem Lucille Clifton wrote:

surely i am able to write poems

celebrating grass and how the blue

in the sky can flow green or red

and the waters lean against the

chesapeake shore like familiar

love poems about nature and landscape

surely but whenever I begin

“the trees wave their knotted branches

and …” god

there is always under that poem

an other poem

Lucille Clifton

to accompany artwork

“writing about trees is difficult”

Note the images of the baby and wasp nest among the acorns