My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads image prompt: Artistic Interpretations with Margaret – Andrew Wyeth
Andrew Wyeth – Wind from the Sea (1947)
Weary from the heat
I retreat
From the stinging sand
Cross the arid land
To the shade of trees
And a welcome breeze
That sets
The birds on the tattered nets
Flying in the vacant view
In which I search for you
Following the tyre tracks
Down to the shore and back
I am an invisible wife
In the composition of your life
© Kim M. Russell, 2016
writing in north norfolk 
This is such a poignant description of a lonely woman… the retreat, the vacant view… It conveys the mood of Wyeth’s work very well indeed.
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Thank you Kerry.
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Sad story that I imagine is often true. Interesting how you were inspired so lyrically by this painting of Wyeth’s–I really like it. You can almost feel the breeze
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Thank you 🙂
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The sadness to be that appendix of someone else’s life, a brushstroke in the composition .. Wonderful
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Thank you, Bjorn.
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brilliantly obvserved in words – had not noticed the birds but really like the analogy of their flight versus the retreat and your other analogy of nets/invisible
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The birds are embroidered or crocheted along the edge of the curtain. I had a closer look at the painting on the Internet. They look like swifts. Thanks for reading so closely, Laura.
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Invisible wife… that is a lonely picture, both your poem and the painting.
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So sad but lovely!
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Thank you Bekkie 🙂
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I have felt this way at times, not because of my husband, but the perception of others that I was a mere housewife. Few knew all the traveling I did to take care of my oldest daughter with all her surgeries and caring for my mother who had Alzheimer’s or the 20 years of volunteering to work with youth.
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There are so many women who are invisible in this way. My mother also has dementia but is in a residential home as she deteriorated very quickly. I can imagine how caring for more than one person can affect other people’s perception of you. I think it is admirable that you have continued to volunteer with young people.
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