Sunday, March 24, 2013

yarmouth library ekphrasis

Mountfort Ridge, painting by Susan Carter


We quarry Light from Stone

Trees becoming ghosts
becoming mist
becoming spirit
(where do their spirits go
when forests die)
trees becoming light, here, shadows
becoming rock
blue across snow
stone below
becoming light

What is happening to these trees
What is happening to these trees

granite, dreaming.

poem by Gary Lawless

appearing together at the Yarmouth Public Library Ekphrasis Show
Poems Speaking to Silent Works of Art
Yarmouth Public Library
Yarmouth, Maine
April 8- May 25
Opening and Poetry Reading Friday, April 12, 530-800 PM