The painting inspired by a poem or vice versa

A Catharsis
Acrylic, Leaf on Canvas
22" diameter
2015
The Writer's Center 2015
The Secret of Bells
Melanie Figg
In motion always, eternity is indistinguishable from creation,
and there the link between ecstasy and ethics shines—
O that boy—unmoored & called to make bells
unthinking & readying
breaking open the earth (—to end so much anxious waiting / to extend his reach)
collapsing into that cool silver, murmuring—
I am here
exhausted in relief & surprised
how lonely that cry is—
that slow unraveling, that dying into newness & leaving the husk
to bear the worthiness of arrival—to reflect what in front of you is sacred
& the birds, hectic & caught up rushing—spinning across air & into our vision of sky
NOTE: in homage to Andrei Tarkovski / epigraph from Donald Revell]