Painter’s Hand is a tale about a woman who loses her lover to the sea and tries to paint him back into existence. But she’ll bring him back to her some day Return color to a lifeless Gray Now years drift in a figure 8 The flesh was seized but the love remained A daily catch for the fathomless blue The Pacific grave, a sailor’s tomb Throw Nature’s breath to the canvas white With brush of a brighter hue Filter Heavenly light If hers were the Painter’s hand