August 12, 1914
graphite pencil on commercially-made lined paper
5 13/16 x 3 11/16 inches
Burchfield Penney Art Center courtesy of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2000
carries it idly about, mingling it with its own steamy breath until we cannot tell which is which.The damp cool of the air is like no other thing in nature. Our thoughts & movements indeed are softened. On rainy days the man is thrown back upon his own resources - as we find an absence of sunlight, bird & insect songs.(HT)All things swell - the earth trees plants wood & even iron why should not the same thing be true of our minds. We must expand, like the leaves, if we would receive all the cleansing water in