Jezebel of the Well

A poem/lyric about the American painter Georgia O'Keeffe.

A jezebel of the well, an artist given in�"

Flood waters flow in distant whispers.

The gates burst open in her haven dreams.

America weaves together canvases.

Love letters to the landscape.

A desert love song.

 

From the faraway nearby,

Lonesome artist on the back of a fallen firebird

From the flood of a perched muse

Where the heart of the Americas bleeds over 

 

A jezebel of the death knell�"

Of a landscape torn by skull and bones.

The gates of the Ghost Ranch are broken.

Her haven dreams are given life�"

In the death valleys of the southwest.

Wet paints coat the red sands of the red hills.

 

From the faraway nearby,

Lonesome artist on the back of a fallen firebird

From the flood of a perched muse

Where the heart of the Americas bleeds over 

 

Dreaming in red,

A Judas kiss upon the sanctuary.

Secrets like rust belt victims spill forth

Trampled by the horses of the flood.

American tears through a painter’s brush.

A jezebel in graveyard dreams�"

Still breaches southwest wells.