detail of Irish Girl by Robert Henri; Oil on Canvas

~~~

We seek thee. We seek thy pink thighed tingeing. We seek thee in nighttime. We seek thy
ample cheeks, thy apple cheeked seeking. We seek thee. Thy swinging skirt. Thy flouncing
to the earth. Thy soft soft cheek. We seek the breath of thee. We speak thee lovely rounded
sonnets. We speak thy rounded lips. Thy flowered lips. We seek the unfurling pinking the
flowered lips the sonnet persuasion. We seek thee. In a glade in a forest in a cousins lap
we seek thee. Between us and it a meadow of thee.

Jane Sprague in Shampoo

Irish Girl by Robert Henri; an American painter and teacher. He was a leading figure of the Ashcan School in art. From 1927 to 1928 Henri painted over 140 portraits of children on tiny Anchill Island of f the northwest coast of Ireland. The girl’s ruddy cheeks suggest the cold, windswept climate of Anchill.

Apple-cheeked
Pronunciation: \ˈa-pəl-ˌchēkt\
Function: adjective
Date: 1847
Defined: having cheeks the color of red apples

Apple Betty; Illuminated Tile. Illuminated Tiles on this blog. Remaining Illuminated Tiles for sale.