Entwined

Everything old is new again.
And in this case it’s the gate.
Which Nathan helped me rebuild
at the entrance to the studio
leaving this old worn section
just hanging in the wind
with nowhere to swing.

Everything around me is changing.
And that includes the landscape
of the studio yard.
When I started work on this composition
the space between the gate
and that red roofed garage
was a patch of weeds laid bare
after I had moved all of the raised beds
to make way for the new studio.

Here is a picture from yesterday
of that same gate at the writing of these Painter’s Notes…

I wanted to mark the passages
of moving the old front gate
out back to give me a new doorway
into the Ruth Stout garden.
And to have one lasting look
at that empty space beyond it
which very very soon
will be a place
where I can sit at my easel chair
and reach out the window
on a summer day like today
and pluck a ripe cherry tomato.