Oxherding Is Fun

jewels sparkle lit  ….like christmas lights    ……..hung by ozark squirrels
amber jade garnet emerald  ….and a turquoise sky  ……..wet diamond white refraction
pierces eyes unblinking — all is light and change — in the forest between the eye and the i

The late afternoon sun lights up an Ozark forest within Petit Jean State Park, Arkansas.

Which came first… the prose or the image?  I quoted a passage from Shakespeare’s Macbeth with the following image.  The image did not exist in its form below until I read the passage but the passage resonated with a vision of the the unprocessed image that I saw when I was shooting this scene for [...]