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4 Herons
Linocut
2021

A 4-color reduction linocut
12" x 6" print size
14" x 8" paper size
Hand printed on BFK Rives paper
Edition: 10
Sold unframed
Price includes shipping within the U.S.

A copy of the poem will come with the print.

GREAT BLUE

Ardea herodias

The heron lifts off
its granite pedestal
with primordial
grandeur,
a pterodactyl
come back
to life.

Ponderous
but aloft,
it skims the bay
with giant
wingbeats,
head tucked,
neck coiled,
legs trailing.

I too want
to rise from
this rocky shore,
redeemed,
and flap into
the great blue
beyond.

Leslie Moore

SPIRE: The Maine Journal of Conservation and Sustainability
2023, Issue 7

HERONS

Four great blues meditate
on mudflats—spar-straight,
stock-still—and I am one of them.

How silent we are
in our low-tide reveries,
gazes both inward and out.

How we sense the ooze
gurgle between toes, water
lap legs, air shift feathers.

How delectable
our discernment of glints
in briny shallows.

Leslie Moore

"Deep Water"
Maine Sunday Telegram
January 22, 2023