You ask
why I perch
on a jade green mountain
I laugh
but say nothing
my heart
free
like a peach blossom
in the flowing stream
going by
in the depths
in another world 
not among men.
    - Li Po (Kenneth Rexroth translation, One Hundred Poems From The Chinese)

. . .

4am, in my studio

Miles Davis “In A Silent Way”
Painting blues and greens
Patterns
Searching for the patterns
For the harmony that exists here
In the blues and greens
And water running through them.
What this painting needs
Is a big fat raven
Cawing into the morning sun.
Or at least the wild sound of one.
- Journal Note