Enter the Fairy Tale

It's been three years, and more, since this mother 
and two young Sandhill Cranes came down

into my Michigan meadow. Looking at the pictures now, 
it is as if I had entered a fairy tale.

I particularly love the spiky foliage on the edges of the wood.
 jhh

Tonight I want to share this quote

which Fleda Brown uses as an epigraph

to Section II of her fine book of poems:

No Need of Sympathy,

BOA Editions, 2013.

Art. by its very existence

undoes the idea that there

can only be one description

of the real, some single

and simple truth

on whose surface

we may thoughtlessly walk.

Jane Hirschfield

Your task:

when you have written a poem

think about your art:

are you describing

or searching?  

And keep a little notebook of possible epigraphs;

as I have shown in other posts, one can

use up to three at a time!  jhh