Do You See - 48" x 24" , Acrylic on fir, $3,700

Do You See The Children

They’re within you and me

They play on the sidelines

Where we used to be

Do you see the connection of you and me

While we watch

We must be as loon can see

That to make our wings big and scare those who might come in the vicinity

Take a look at what is true and dear

That deep inside of this place that we reside

The smallness becomes the bigness

To protect what  we risk the loss of what could be

The future of our love

That something so rare and few

Could disappear forever

I saw up in the sky

In clouds that shaped on top of blue up high

Messenger protectors of Loon and Bear

That even they couldn’t stay

But spent their time giving their outlines in our minds

To keep our children close at hand

And learn the wings of our empty lands

That they are in our keeping

Like Loon who becomes the largeness of his span

And faces the world of his hidden stand

That once it falls it kills in smalls

In lonesome voice that flutter the water as he calls

To find the courage of what could be kept

That needs the keepers of what sleeps and rests

And plays, the small and the rare

The beauty up in his lair

That protects like loon and bear.

LauraLee K. Harris