Tucked In

Art: Mark Collins
www.markcollinsfineart.com/

Do you remember it, being tucked in? Secure.

Afraid of nothing. Faithful. There was a trust

in something greater, wasn’t there? To be held.

Something so big from something so simple.

At bedtime, did you request it?

“Tuck me in, please.”

“Please, tuck me in.”

So, the barred owl was there in the beech,

tucked in, peering outward to the world

with dark round eyes that I couldn’t quite figure,

but there was something big and meaningful

behind them, maybe something pained, and I

thought about things that I hadn’t been thinking

about, not before the owl:

How sometimes we need to be held tightly,

and for long enough. Long enough is so

important.

How as an adult it can seem so very hard to

get tucked in. Maybe there’s a hug, yes. But,

is it long enough?

How it seems we’ve lost our trust, maybe

our faith in something greater, a caring

something. Caring is so important.

There is a longing I know well.

You?

I think about being tucked in and

wonder: could this be our animal

nature?

Do we, all of us, need to know

that we are being held?

And, do we need to trust that it

will be for long enough?

~ Jamie K. Reaser, Author

A book collaboration in progress with artist Mark Collins
"Tucked In" has been accepted into the Birds In Art Exhibition

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