The Birds

The Birds
Detail from The Sky Is Falling/Collage, Acrylic, and Printmaking/All artwork by Elizabeth Seaver

An Artist’s Aviary

By Elizabeth Seaver

A Bird Came Down the Walk
Emily Dickinson


A Bird, came down the Walk – 
He did not know I saw –
He bit an Angle Worm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw, 
And then, he drank a Dew
From a convenient Grass –
And then hopped sidewise to the Wall
To let a Beetle pass –
He glanced with rapid eyes,
That hurried all abroad –
They looked like frightened Beads, I thought,
He stirred his Velvet Head. – 
Like one in danger, Cautious,
I offered him a Crumb,
And he unrolled his feathers, 
And rowed him softer Home –
Than Oars divide the Ocean,
Too silver for a seam,
Or Butterflies, off Banks of Noon,
Leap, plashless as they swim.  

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Booby Afloat/20×20, Collage and Acrylic

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Pelican Airways/30×40, Collage and Acrylic

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Eight Arms to Hold You Tight/24×24, Collage and Acrylic

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Zero to Sixty/24×36, Collage and Acrylic

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The Sky is Falling/36×36, Collage, Acrylic, and Printmaking

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Pirates on the Beach/24×36, Collage and Acrylic

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Beatrice on her Best Behavior/15×30, Collage and Acrylic

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First Date/48×48, Collage and Acrylic

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Water Hazard/36×36, Collage and Acrylic

*** Elizabeth Seaver spends most of her days making art and teaching in Studio #26 at LibertyTown Arts Workshop in downtown Fredericksburg, Virginia, where she’ll be part of a three-artist show in September 2024. You can contact her at [email protected]. To find out more about Elizabeth and her work, check out her Instagram account, @elizabethseaverart, or go to her website, https://www.byelizabeth.com/.