Daisy bides her time. Lee Smith has published nine novels and two collections of short stories, including Saving Grace, The Devil's Dream, Fair and Tender Ladies, and Family Linen. North Carolina Museum of Art. Again we are struck as always in O'Keeffe by absence, the absolute lack of the need for us. More barn than benefice, these low walls slope in unbroken sun, the maize-colored stone shimmers like a ripe crop out of the dirt around it.
Clouds draw thin white wakes across infinite-seeming blue.
Involuntarily even at this remove we squint against such light unbidden, unrelieved. Sealed against us, against revealings, a sublime sufficiency unto itself. It is our own need we meet. This is the church at Cebolla. Portals we might have sought are turned and imaginary.