Landscape painting V

Landscape painting V

Scraping away the layers of earth's ochre and ore
From beneath the level of a long forgotten field,
Where primed and primeval origins are concealed
On a canvas under layers of pallet-knifed impasto.
Colour heaped on colour burying sketched outlines
Rendered in charcoal dug from an ancient fire pit
And found with shells bearing traces of green,
Ultramarine and gold mined from precious seams.
My brush reveals such details from among the debris.
Then, lifting from the pallet the unearthed fragments
And assembling them in situ it seems
That I touch upon a latent sense of lineage
That my painterly marks like pottery shards
Have a similar potential to awe.


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