Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: 5/15/05: From among the gray-white headstones a thin string dances.

Jacob Lawrence, "Life, Death, and Resurrection" (1955) — Jacob Lawrence, *Life, Death, and Resurrection* (1955)

May 15, 2005:

From among the gray-white headstones a thin string dances. Straining, skyward, straining. Direct line, from the hands of a small boy visiting his ancestors to the tail of a happy green kite, weaving to and fro above the treetops, straining, straining, aching for liberation.