We Have A Beautiful Mother....

"Mother" ~ street drawing done in chalk

Walking around the local waterfront park along the river in Bend this summer, I came upon this gorgeous chalk painting on the bridge crossing the Deschutes river...I've been waiting to to post it for a couple of months now,  and today as I opened  Alice Walkers  book "Anything We Love Can Be Saved," I came upon this poem,  and after reading it I  thought the painting and the poem were meant for each other...

We Have A Beautiful Mother

~ by Alice Walker

We have a beautiful 

mother

Her hills

are buffaloes

Her buffaloes

hills.

We have a beautiful

mother 

Her oceans

are wombs

Her Wombs

oceans.

We have a beautiful 

mother 

Her teeth

the white stones 

at the edge 

of the water

the summer grasses

her plentiful

hair.

We have a beautiful

mother

Her green lap

immense

Her brown embrace

eternal

Her blue body

everything

we know.