There was a fragility in your towering presence
A danger looming heavily in the wind
By day you were a god, shining yellow and green
like heaven
By night a stallion bucking, breaking, buckling
under the pressure
The weight was too much for others
You carried it and creaked and cracked and held on
There wasn't anything anyone could do for you
So independent
So fierce
Your sweet sapling days long gone
You threw all that was left of you upwards
Until the night you came crashing down
Upon me
I held you
You didn't respond
I'm still holding you
You are never broken in my eyes
You are always here
Acrylic on Canvas, 52"x 52", 2019
Friends and Family, oil on wood, 72"x 96", 2009
Oil Pastel on Canvas, 18" x 24", 2020
Acrylic on Canvas, 18" x 24", 2019
Oil Pastel on canvas, 18"x 24", 2020
Oil on canvas, 36"x 48", 2009
Oil on wood, 36"x 48", 2009