Saturday, September 05, 2009
Dusk
photography by Bob Evans
There’s an expectation at the coming of night
that with the curtain of darkness drawn down tight
activity will cease with a deep sigh,
and peace will come.
Yet, all it really takes is a step onto my back porch --
to feel a playful breeze rise over my wakeful skin,
to smell lavender preparing to be ravished by tomorrow’s honey bees,
to hear the trill of tree frogs promising passion in the darkness,
to know that night is not a silent ending
rather a dark resurrection of life and love.
Lesley-Anne Evans
September 2009
Friday, September 04, 2009
Pink Warrior
Girl in the fuscia raincoat
twirling at the top of the playground hill…
Round and round, eyes closed
(fully in the moment), until
he advances up the slope
guns blazing.
Fists clenched, you
stand your ground and
force his retreat.
Warrior princess of the school yard
you spin around again,
a vision of victory
while your pastel clad playmates
run screaming
for a teacher.
Lesley-Anne Evans
Fall 2008
Labels:
children,
conflict,
gender differences,
school
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Love is stronger than death
photography by Lesley-Anne Evans
It wouldn’t take much, maybe
just belief in a love greater
than the separation of two lanes of worn asphalt,
to reach out your moss covered arms,
roots stretching triumphant down the embankment,
and take back the forest primeval.
Lesley-Anne Evans
July 2009
Labels:
ancient,
first nations,
first peoples,
growth,
history,
old growth,
roots
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