Book 14
Rebirth of Wonder
Something
From: A Circle of Love
The waves roll
and the tides of the moon
turn me under again
I have my moment with the sea
I flow around the earth
my hair caught in continents
and come up gasping
I would like to know your name
for all of my life
–Joan Finnigan–
The text of Something can be found in the book Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver and published by Beacon Press 2004.
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I painted the two center sheets of this book in a Judy Melvin workshop in 2008. The other sheets were painted as the book developed. They include snippets of a jazz poem called I Am Waiting by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. The refrain, "I am waiting for the rebirth of wonder ", runs through the poem and these pages.
The section of Joan Finnigan’s poem "A Circle of Love", immediately came to mind for theses pages. I then found "Something" by Mary Oliver which seemed to compliment the other two poems and complete the work. The Finnigan poem was written in white goauche with my lovely brush by Keith Lebenzon and the text of "Something" was written in white gouache with a pointed pen. The lettering was inspired by Hans Joachim Burgert and a photo of the egg-case of a knobbed whelk which I found thanks to Steven Pinker. It was enhanced by my own idiopathic tremor.
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