mermaid in a sea of swirling air
Gloria drops her leaves
litter like silk puddles
around her on the ground
She’s nearly nude now
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The wind rolls in like waves
breakers on hilltops
It spills, crashes into the valley
I feel like a mermaid
In a sea of swirling air
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Author/Artist Info
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Madison Woods is a self-taught artist who moved to the Ozarks from south Louisiana in 2005. In 2018 she began experimenting with watercolor painting, using her local pigments. She calls them Paleo Paints, and her artwork features exclusively the lightfast pigments foraged from Madison county, Arkansas. Her inspiration is nature – the beauty, and the inherent cycle of life and death, destruction and regeneration.
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Gloria is glorious!! <3
She is, isn’t she!? I take a lot of photos of her, and am amazed at how much she has grown even since we’ve lived here.