C. C. Barton 

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Dwellings:  The Potter's House

(Text of the poem below)

Three Plates  /   Paper Dimension: 12" x 9"

Hand Watercolored  Etching with Original Poetry

Edition: 100 + 15  Artist  Proofs

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Dwellings:  The Potter's House

There is a potter who builds a simple house

- a dwelling smaller than a shoebox.

The sturdy ochre walls -

fired slabs of clay, shaped and smoothed by hands

not unlike those of a master gardener,

for whom the earth

and a certain measure of water upon it

is the stuff of life.

And inside this house is a little candle

that you can light with a match

and find a metaphor

for the simplicity

and the grace

of a life well lived.