Wondering Wanderer

Jamie Wyeth (American, born 1946)

Other Voices Study #1, 1995

Charcoal and gouache on cardboard

39 1/4 x 36 inches

Undulating circumstantial

Preempted persuasion

Caught in the act

Of living

Conjured coercion

Omniscient overload

Taken unawares

splitting hairs

Reticent recompense

Lackadaisical leverage

Plastered over

Your space

Flowering forbearance

Recouped righteousness

Caught red handed

In the reckoning

Roping redundancy

Feigning fortitude

Standing with your thumb out

On the Carolina roadside

Usefully unencumbered

Passing passion

Like currency

Misspent

Did the cat

Catch your tongue

RolloRoberson©️2026(wordsandpics)

“Did you never call? I waited for your call

These rivers of suggestion are driving me away

The ocean sang, the conversation's dimmed

Go build yourself another dream, this choice isn't mine

I'm sorry, I'm sorry”- Peter Lawrence Buck / Michael E. Mills / William Thomas Berry / John Michael Stipe

So. Central Rain lyrics © Night Garden Music

Patti Smith by Lynn Goldsmith

“The Observatory,” 1978 watercolor, measuring 30” x 22,” by Andrew Wyeth.

"A window is a look into time and space."

Parody of Perfection

The approach to appraisal

Is littered with obstacles

Dubious and benign

To swallow you up

To serenade the Divine

While my selfishness

Struggles with brokenness

And the sharp contrast between light and sadness

I have moments whole and untouched

When silent perfection

Envelopes my being

Like a sunset in the autumn sky

2025©️RolloRoberson

“It's been a long, long, long time

How could I ever have lost you?

When I loved you…

So many tears I was searching….

- George Harrison