Friday, May 24, 2013


Perkins Road
By Tula Holmes

When you turn to your wife and ask,
“How long has it been since I’ve seen her?”
she’ll look at her watch and answer,
“Perhaps a year, maybe two.”
Before you click the lamp off,
you’ll mention getting together
between vacations and busy schedules.
But my clock ticks slower now,
in seconds too many to count,
so I’ll pass the time wishing we lived
down the street from each other
on Perkins Road, where as a girl
I rode a blue Schwinn, popped pink bubble gum,
and dreamt of Little Joe on Sunday nights.

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Sweet Home is oil on paper. The model is a Batwa Pygmy from a small village near Ngozi in the mountains of Burundi, Africa. They are some of the poorest people on earth. Pray for them.


Thursday, January 31, 2013

The Potato Peeler


Although I painted The Potato Peeler monumentally, she is a Batwa and one of the poorest people on earth. The root, or potato, that she cleans will be the only meal she gets that day. I hope you find her as beautiful as I do.