Art and a Winter Landscape
Shadows stretch their arms
and yawn
as they lie upon a bed rumpled
by trails of footprints
disappearing into the distance
like a perspective drawing
of converging railway tracks.
Blanketed with snow-laden
pines,
mountains watch the shadows
sleep
under a ceiling of cirrus
cloud –
their contours sketched upon a
vast canvas.
Blue – everything is swathed
in shades of blue:
smoke curling up from
chimneys,
sky, snow-capped mountains,
ice on the lake –
reflections of Picasso’s Blue
Period;
the light – crisp, sharp and
focused –
a tribute to nature’s artistry
as she paints a winter
landscape.
After the Rain
Ebony skies
obscure wooly clouds
and swallow stars,
gurgling gutters
gargle,
blurry moony-eyed
lights
stagger along wet
pavement
below each
streetlamp.
The night is drunk
with ozone –
saturated,
exhilarated, out of focus;
headlights scan
the darkness
as homeward-bound
cars
swoosh through
puddles
on slick streets
unaware of the
hedonistic delights
the night has to
offer.
Biography
FERN G. Z. CARR is the President of Project Literacy Kelowna Society, a lawyer, teacher and past President of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. A Full Member of and former Poet-in-Residence for the League of Canadian Poets, this Pushcart Prize nominee composes and translates poetry in six languages including Mandarin Chinese. Carr has been published extensively world-wide from Finland to Mauritius. Honours include having been cited as a contributor to the Prakalpana Literary Movement in India as well as having had her work taught at West Virginia University, set to music by a Juno-nominated musician, and featured online in The Globe and Mail, Canada’s national newspaper. Her poem, “I Am”, was chosen by the Parliamentary Poet Laureate as Poem of the Month for Canada. Carr is thrilled to have another one of her poems currently orbiting the planet Mars aboard NASA’S MAVEN spacecraft. www.ferngzcarr.com
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