Art: Snow by Nancy Shuler
TURNING
I was out of the light . . .
-Brian Wilson-
Already I can feel the red-veined maples pulsing
into end-of-life, sun-dressed aspens rust-gold,
white willow catkins, winter-wind’s first kiss
passing through the blue spruce, firs, pine baffles,
settling over bright-green moss. Everything deepens,
darkens, before what’s lost. The rest, we know, History. Fall.
And all attendant allusions. Blood thickens with the weather.
Grace, Purpose, if ever, gone to white nights. Turning away, back,
what we’re now not, maybe never were, when young and beautiful
on Blond Street, in Blond Forest Thickets, knowing we’d always belong
to light. Blond-on-Blond. Never-Neverlands wished upon polestars.
Sugar-Plum Fairies. Peter Pans and Pammys.
(Whatever happened to wishes wished on a star?)
And so, the sage laments, begins grief.
About the author:
GTimothy Gordon‘s seventh book, DREAM WIND, is now under review, FROM FALLING published Autumn 2017 (Spirit-of-the-Ram P). Work appears in AGNI, CINCINNATI POETRY R, KANSAS Q, LOUISVILLE R, MISSISSIPPI R, NEW YORK Q, RHINO, SONORA R, TEXAS OBSERVER; TEXAS LITERARY R, & BASEBALL BARD, among others. EVERYTHING SPEAKING CHINESE received the SunStone P Poetry Prize (AZ). Recognitions include NEA & NEH Fellowships and nominations for Pushcarts and The NEA Western States’ Book Awards. He divides professional and personal lives among Asia, the Desert/Mountain Southwest, and Maine.
Art: Snow by Nancy Shuler
In the artist’s words:
I enjoy turning my photographs into virtual paintings by adding various filters and techniques to my original shots. I have developed this method of “Photographic Art” over the many years in which I have been a photographer. Each photograph undergoes an unique and creative process to bring out its own specific beauty by emphasizing its distinctive composition and lighting. Each photo is printed on canvas to further increase its depth and intensity. Each canvas photo is sprayed with an acid free acrylic coating to protect its surface and insurer its longevity. I hope you enjoy my creations as much as I enjoy creating them.
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