Issue 10
Pure
Thomas David Olson
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Woman With A Ewer
A young woman, holding a silver ewer by the handle in her left
hand, adjusts a casement window with her right hand. The woman's eyes appear to
be on the clouds and sky reflected in the glass, but her thoughts are of her
visitor, who has entered the room and seated himself near the carpet-covered
table at which she stands. He watches her: She has the pleased smile of a woman
being admired. She wears a yellow and black bodice over a black skirt, and a
white headdress with a semi-transparent, yoked, linen collar. You are the
visitor. Your eyes are level with her heart. The gold light reflecting off the
inside of the rim of the basin in which the ewer stands is precisely the color
of the stripe of yellow of the left sleeve of her bodice, and the light
streaming across the wall behind her is also of that shade. All is bathed in
this light. The light represents truth, the water with which she will wash her
hands, purity. This moment of perfect balance, repose, peace, light, purity and
love expands and fills Eternity. Your heart is imprisoned by her smile, your
eyes fixed forever upon her heart.
~Thomas David Olson
Born in 1933, studied humanities at the University of Minnesota, only began submitting to magazines recently. E-mail.
© 2002 by Thomas David Olson. All Rights Reserved.
© Copyright 2002 by Cayuse Press. All Rights Reserved.
This page updated December 23, 2002.