"RED BIRD, One"
Leah Campbell Badertscher, 2016
10x10, acrylic and charcoal on canvas
original
 

"Red bird came all winter
firing up the landscape
as nothing else could...

For truly the body needs
a song, a spirit, a soul. And no less, to make this work,
the soul has need of a body,
and I am both of the earth and I am of the inexplicable
beauty of heaven
where I fly so easily, so welcome, yes,
and this is why I have been sent, to teach this to your heart."

from "Red Bird" by Mary Oliver