A Longing for Trees

original painting
acrylic, pencil and pastel on stretched canvas 
76 x 102 cm 

amid the forest
beneath boughs and branches
between frond and fern
there is a place that mermaids go

they shake salt
and polish scales
and unknot knotted locks

swapping the bright and the up down heave and tumble
for another world
they long for the trees 
for the lilt of ground sounds
for leaf light dapple
for the land

but when all the salt is shook
and all the scales polished
and all the locks unknotted
they remember they are fit for the briny blue

and so they look past the grove and canopied sky
for froth and foam
they long for the deep
for shell and shine 
for a gull's call and the tide's turn
for the sea

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