Elm & Elderberry #3 : Three Suns of the Morning30" x 15" x 1. 5" Acrylic on Canvas PRELUDE My Parents Were Never Big Drinkers Anniversary or Hot Summer Day My Dad Claimed, as if a Big Thinker Hed Ferment Elderberries in Clay All the While an Elm Tree Was Growing Across the Street from Our Front Yard With the Seeds, the Wind Was Blowing Young Saplings Caught My Dad Off Guard Before the Ugly Things Could Spread Choking the Flowers, Grass, and Fruit Pulling them Out, He Had to Stay Ahead Of Every

and Light Peach

but as the work developed

” I love the graphics of Rick’s signature checkerboard motif

I Take Out Mom’s Book – And Start to Perform

My Mom Quickly Makes – A New Batch for Me

And Know Not What to Do

You Used Table Salt – Now No One Will Eat

Was the Hazy Backdrop

As I Made the Trek Home

A Burger and Fries

8” X 10”

Of Every Sprouting Leaf and Root