wayfinding
not unlike the enticing
darting light of tinker bell,
the fairy dust of a nocturnal
rabbit’s delicate footprints
spools out in front of us
in otherwise unbroken new-fallen snow
for the entire one-mile length
of labor-in-vain road,
beckoning us
forward,
forward,
this way,
this way,
as we walk together
before dawn on a thursday in january.
—dotty seiter
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9 x 12″; ink and watercolor pencil on paper
Let’s Face It With Friends series
2025
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Notes about poem and art:
• “Wayfinding” celebrates a walk in the dark in winter with a fresh inch or so of snow on the ground. At the outset, weighing the conditions with caution—yes? no? walk? wait? And then, the magic of wayfinding with the gift of an earlier trailblazer’s footprints as trail blazes!
• As with the snow-covered road, so with the neurographic drawing. At the outset, assessing the ‘conditions’ and, then, enjoying the magic of wayfinding, this time with the gift of a different orientation from four years ago, an orientation that led me to discover the friends who gather to celebrate the new year!
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The neighborhood in which I discovered the celebrating friends:
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