To The Shrike

#3 of lyric poetry here's some ekphrastic poetry, with inspiration taken from a sumi-e painting done by legendary samurai, miyamoto musashi. the painting in question is titled shrike on a withered branch.

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The Fertile Clearing

She tried sumi-e, but with her swelling midsection she couldn't sit at any of the tables without being so far away from the paper, and her feet were too tender to stand and paint.

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