KAYE MAHONEY | Falling Night Water
Oil on canvas
122 × 137 cm
Oil on canvas
122 × 137 cm
Oil on canvas
122 × 137 cm
FALLING NIGHT WATER
The night is deep
Counting my thoughts like counting sleep
Envisioned, tattooed into the brain chamber of now
Fearing that they are formed in fugitive sap and alizarin
- that the visions will surely glimmer into extinction
I trace their journey from crashing falling water, splashing sub-consciousness
- committing them to memory
A waterfall stands guard at the entrance of earth mother’s cave
Where a low groan rises from the rocks carved as a makeshift nave
The lower in pitch the louder it rises
Lifting in vibration as if to soften the fall or the rise of an angel
- the one from the tombstone of the creator of Liberty the statue
The angel’s whirring wings blur into a magnetic buzz, fanning a soft wind
- feeding a field of Kakadu Lilies to east,
- leaning towards wild Clustered Bellflowers to west, bearing golden crossed stamens
Deep into the night
© Kaye Mahoney 2024