Art: Surfacing by Nathan Ramer, @artwithnathan
SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED
is a proviso
attached to blessings
and revolutions
alike.
between mobility
and mobilization the road
is scattered
with thumbtacks
like seeds
sown out of adversity
a visitation
is but an invitation
to lift
oneself from
the sidewalk crack’s
back-breaking origins
where anyone is going
is guesswork
best left to those
wise enough
not to second guess
the signs
what motivates
the wind-chilled heart
can change
at a hairpin turn
a lone voice
can only embrace
the wilderness
of its choice
About the author:
Steven Mayoff was born and raised in Montreal, later on lived in Toronto, and moved to the bucolic splendor of Prince Edward Island, Canada in 2001. His fiction and poetry have appeared in literary journals across Canada and the U.S., as well as in Ireland, Algeria, France, Wales, England and Croatia. He has written two books of fiction: the story collection Fatted Calf Blues (Turnstone Press, 2009) and the novel Our Lady Of Steerage (Bunim & Bannigan, 2015). Upcoming is poetry collection Swinging Between Water And Stone, to be published by Guernica Editions in 2019.
Art: Surfacing by Nathan Ramer, @artwithnathan
In the artist’s words:
Nathan Ramer is a 13 year-old self taught artist living in the Hampton Roads Area of Virginia. He creates abstract images using acrylic and watercolor on wrapped canvas. He was featured on abstractmagtv’s Instagram and website in February 2017. He may be reached at Nathan.ramer89@gmail.com.