Peonies in the Cut Glass Vase

Peonies in the Cut Glass Vase
Copyright 2015 Hirschten
Oil on Canvas 16" x 20"
Prints available on Fine Art America

Excerpt from the poem "Peonies"

Do you also hurry, half-dressed and barefoot, into the garden,
and softly,
and exclaiming of their dearness,
fill your arms with the white and pink flowers,

with their honeyed heaviness, their lush trembling,
their eagerness
to be wild and perfect for a moment, before they are
nothing, forever?

-Mary Oliver