Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

A2000.001.017.106

[inscription reads] " haps that accounts for their beauty – the poet finds his greatest thoughts in seclusion & solitude. Their petals glitter in sunlight as tho (sic) speckled with a million pin point diamonds. / Burr-reed. / Patch of lavender monkeyflower. Ground also speckled with their flowers. Undertake to penetrate cat-tails. They stand a foot above my head. – a veritable wilderness. We are struck with the cleanness of their leaves. A peculiar odor from them. The ponds grows too deep. I return. Forsake swamp & "