Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

Walt Whitman, from “Song of Myself”

And I know that the spirit of God is the eldest brother of my own,

And that all the men ever born are also my brothers . . . .and the women my sisters

   and lovers,

And that a kelson of the creation is love;

And limitless are leaves stiff or drooping in the fields,

And brown ants in the little wells beneath them,

And mossy scabs of the wormfence, and heaped stones, and elder and mullein and

   pokeweed.