emily carr skies

 I couldn't tell which stars were which or how far away any one of them was,

 or which were still burning or not - their light moving through space like a long

 late train - and I've lived on this earth so long -

 and all this time stars in the sky - in the daylight

 when I couldn't see them,

 and at night when, most nights, I didn't look.

All text in this post is by Marie Howe
The images are by Emily Carr, found in Doris Shadbolt's book about the artist.