Discourse: Word and Image

Anabasis I (Ascension)
(Oil on canvas, 24" x 18")

Anabasis II

So this is
how you see it:
a disencumberment,
a casting away of clothes.
And maybe when you arrive
at your destination, emerging into
the transcendent air, you will be naked,
not in a humiliating way, not exhibitionist,
but relieved of all the needless acquired things –
fear, anger, conceitedness, the gross misapprehension
of reality. Unbound finally, like one unwrapped from burial,
someone newly born. Washed by sunshine, open to the wind, ready
for new apparel: the perfect fit that never clings or frays, that never fades
or falls from fashion, that always reveals you openly, in the best possible light.