Sacred Ibis Out of the Mist
30" x 36"
acrylic / canvas

A secret rendevous between Morning and Night
when others sleep or don't sleep but neither see.
Whispered greetings from Dawn to his darker friend
as they both bring a dusky blanket to this trysting place
and find mirth in juggling their gifts to one another.
Yellow sky of day-worn light glints
and bounces on a vapour out of place,
like a child's laugh on a planet long since dead
and smile over trees they never could have dreamed of,
and watch while birds,
as white as sun drenched hills of chalk,
fly by,
they never could have schemed of.