LJI Second Chance: April Shade

[alycewilson]

This is my entry for LJ Idol's Second Chance competition (https://therealljidol.dreamwidth.org) for eliminated contestants to earn a spot back in the competition. The topic this week is "Shade." I'll update when there is a voting link.

APRIL SHADE

Spring sun shadows through bare branches
fascinate me. Again and again, I feel
compelled to photograph the way those crooked
lines stretch across the grass, dark mirrors. Blackness
crisscrosses latent green, undulates.
The grass awash in ripples, dappled grays and fading
charcoal. Glimpsed from a distance, these lines mimic
root systems stretching underneath: that two-brushed
flare of living trees, stretching above and below.

At that moment, when the world lies
dormant, I feel more sharply
the life that suffuses.

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ETA: As promised, here is the link to the poll: https://therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1030373.html. Four people will be eliminated from Second Chance this week!

Comments

[favoritebean_writes]

I love this, and I love the accompanying photograph. Did you take the photo?

[alycewilson]

Yes, I did! That was when my son was playing with his cousins on a playground near the elementary school in my sister's neighborhood. Here's another shot taken near the same time, of my niece and my son, with the tree in the background. If you click on it, you can see it larger on Flickr.