eight lives

ALT: crayon drawing of a stylized recumbent cat – yellow with blue outlines and a blue star on its back, and crescent moons in its eyes.

methinks I hear an heavenly host

ALT: crayon drawing. Two angel rocks flying (they have wings and halos, otherwise just rocks). A hornet soars above blowing a horn, and faint in the background is something like the archaic angels with no body and about six wings.

reach and hold

ALT: crayon drawing, somewhat abstract. A plant occupies the right side of the drawing, with an orangish rock held in its roots and its leaves lifted toward and overlapping a red rubber ball of a sun.

and the forest fights back

ALT: abstract crayon drawing. There’s some stuff that looks like trees in the upper right corner. A long red shape I think of as a battle dryad has its back to the trees. Some watery stuff in the upper left, and a curve of pink and gold arcs around, pushing back against the dryad, perhaps. Or tell your own story about it.

minding the tender shoot

ALT: crayon drawing. A person hovering low over a seed with a little root and three green leaves. They’re just observing, not doing any actions, but I tried to show a certain tenderness in their gaze.

there’s no going back – there never was.

ALT: imaginary landscape in water-soluble crayon, orange/gold and violet. Watery stuff in the foreground, misty gold fields in the middle distance, tall peaks on the horizon, under a purple sky.

S-curve

ALT: crayon drawing of a heron, neck bent in an ess shape, standing in water in a marsh. It’s not very realistic.

dancing in a very small space

ALT: crayon drawing of a person absolutely squished into the confines of the page but still smiling and making a dancerly gesture