Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Work In Progress: Conjunctions

Part two of my collaborative process with the talented poet, Maura High.
Conjunctions by Lyric Kinard
[Conjunctions]

Maybe it was just the back and forth of the wipers,
or that they were the only people I saw
on that stretch of the road, and the rain

was pouring over the windshield,
rivulets and deltas of rain flooding
a space swept clean and then filled again, the sky

drear and seething, the dripping, somnolent trees;
or that I knew nothing about them except
what I could see in passing and then

in the rearview mirror: that they were a couple,
middle-aged, in parkas, with their hoods up,
walking out of the woods, holding hands,

and that they found daylight there,
at the seam between this and other:
a gate and a path leading beyond it, an opening.

© 2012 Maura High

The imprinted silk from this piece and "Verbesina Ocidentalis" was eco-dyed by Arlee Barr. You should check out her shop - it's got some stunning cloth in it right now that I'm having a hard time resisting.

3 comments:

landscapelady said...

omg! the fabric in her shop is to dye for ;-) thanks for the tip on that and I love the eco / natural / organic feel of this work.

arlee said...

Thank you Lyric, an unexpected pleasure to find this today--muchly apreciated

and you make that poetry and pretty sing with your "translation" to textiles

Diana said...

It's marvelous. Singing in the quiet spaces.