Underwood and Fog:  Maggie Roe

Trees
in thin stands
as if seen from a distance
across abandoned meadows,
stagnant ditches,
rivers full of debris from upstream floods
where farmers who have never cried cry.

Trees,
roots lost beneath the ground,
lost yet sensed among burrow,
rock and worm.
Fog so dense the sound of life's end
lost, muffled
in swamp, weed and bog.

Trees,
she paints trees where imagined silhouettes
move patiently
towards tomorrow's sound
unseen
until ground and fog cries.

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Maggie Roe is a Western Washington artist.  For much of her life, she did
work based on Northwest Native America themes and flowers, while not
average, not of the first rank.  Recently, her art has changed dramatically.
She now paints oils of trees, but not simply trees, haunting trees with
script included.  The gallery owner where I picked up three prints said she
is sick, perhaps effecting her art.  I wish I could direct you to pictures,
but the new stuff is not online.  Do an Yahoo search for M M Roe and you
will see the older styles.


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