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The Woman Who Painted the Sky
- The Critics said for years
- she was too predictable ...
painting only
- one shade of sky.
-
- They seemed disturbed
- by the lacy, layered blue
- she had perfected
- - a white-blue
- that skittered across the canvas
- - a blue that is sometimes heard
singing in
- high tension wires....
-
- In the end she compromised;
- used different hues
- - dotted black swans on the hem
of cirrus cloud
- - brushed in the half-grey light
of storms.
-
- They said her art had come of
age
- but it felt like selling out.
-
- She never had the dream again
- where her body let go
- its own blue centre
- and spiralled up to light
- like egg white
-
in glass blown air.
Judy Johnson has had poems
accepted by Mattoid, Social Alternatives, Poetrix, Heartland, Shadow Cabinet, Courier
Mail, Australian Writer's Journal and various overseas magazines. A number of her
poems are to be broadcast on 5UV Adelaide.