green woman

It has been some time since last I engaged the Fields of Arbol, but after seeing this image by Valentina Kallias, I just had to ask her permission to use it, alongside the poem it inspired, on this blog.
Thanks, V, for the gracious permission. Click the photo to see a much larger version, and please visit her website from the link to find other works by this excellent Swiss artist and model.
And so yet another blossom erupts in the Fields of Arbol.

in the wind and the sun, fields ripe with life,
you bring it to my soul. the power of the earth,
merged to the sky and wind and the rain, to
burst forth to flood the senses with wondrous things,
sight and scent and taste and texture, lacking
only the sounds my words fill in as frail offering
to the goddess of the transfiguration of the world
into an Eden, where I would lay, and draw joy.
I would be innocent again, and fulfilled, in arms
and eyes and lips and the embrace of the green woman.


William F. DeVault. all rights reserved.