when we see
across time
and notice
the crystal ball
told the truth
and we made notes
i paint, "tales from the woods"
to see
from a different
time scale
so that i might
speak of what i hear
in the whispering
and we made notes
a few like-minded soles
the fluttering green
of swaying trees
waving to
crashing seas
to angelique*
and brine
and to"charlotte"
a sailor's dream
speaking of the sea
Although it was not a marine architect who coined the phrase,
"form follows function," the remark is seldom more clearly
expressed in any of man's endeavors
than it is in the hull of a sailing vessel.**
*angelique:
50' schooner "Charlotte" by Nat Benjamin
shear, lower planking and frames of
angelique,
topsides of silver bali-
bolth selectively cut in Surinam
**from "the art of wooden boat building"
http://www.peterbeckett.com/
