Posey County Barn

The old barns are slowly disappearing from our landscapes….  

There is beauty in their aging faces.

 

Osprey

Osprey, Hovey Lake

Posey County, Indiana

 

 

Hilda Morley (1919 – 1998)

Posey County Sunrise

 

 A Thousand Birds by Hilda Morley

 

A thousand birds—they flew out of

your mouth at your dying,

                                       as you said

                                       they would

& bewildered me:

                         They bewilder me still.

Nearly 48 months have passed & the beating

of those wings has haunted,      filled

                                              this room

                                              where I

sit now writing, the room

where you died:

                         a clattering

of wings has passed through these walls.

                                    Something has stopped.

                                    Something

is unable to go any farther.

                                    The wings are

                                    still now

                                    & I rock from

                                    side to side

                                    with the faintest

movement barely perceptible because I cannot

breathe in this stillness

                                        & must set that power

moving,

               those enormous wings

flying again

A Thousand Birds from Cloudless at First by Hilda Morley

(Kingston, Rhode Island: Moyer Bell, 1988)

Wabi Sabi

Barn - Posey County Indiana

Wabi Sabi is a Japanese term that is hard to define.  In simplistic terms,

it is an aesthetic consciousness whereby an object’s true essence is found

by looking beyond the surface.

When we look beyond the physical appearance, we can see an inner

beauty in objects that are imperfect, decayed, cracked, wrinkled, etc.