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Prussian Blue

slight decay under the suns metallic half-lit shoulder. angular signs and sinews fall in the late evening. in every field the wandering stones sigh and clap their tumbling foreheads down a little. lying next to the cleft of a rock ninety degrees past a bent heaven. there if you watch and wait you will find it, the ground up pigments of the skies liturgical form. now the stones cannot forget so that the grass of the field may go on living. the basin brought to return half empty in the low light. beautiful in its winter slant robed garmets of light blue frost. **inspired by the painting "the entombment of christ" by adrian van der werff. first painting to use prussian blue

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Date: 3/30/2011 6:38:00 AM
Creative and expressive write on prussian blue
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Date: 3/30/2011 5:47:00 AM
Enjoyed reading this amazing piece of poetry this morning Nathan. Thank you for sharing it. Love, Carol
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