A poem inspired by a surrealist painting by Leonora Carrington in celebration of National Poetry Month, 2025
Poetry + fiction + photos + other thoughts
Tag: art
When even a minimalist work seems to be alive, full of motion…well, that’s how Reclining Woman and Guitarist, 1959, Pablo Picasso, linocut on paper, strikes me. You can see it in Ohio’s Akron Museum, if it is on display while…
The Echo of the Real Thing While not being truly abstract, Alexandra Exter’s Landscape with Houses and Trees, is a type of art I’m always drawn to: non-realistic verging on non-objective. The curves of green trees lean out from…
Time and Mortality Time and mortality: it’s not that we don’t realize we’re all mortal, it’s that the reminder comes as a surprise. A glance in the mirror that reminds us, only vaguely, of a relative or long gone friend.…
More Parts: Add Up Wholes are made from parts. Parts and more parts, which add up to something even more. Obvious, right? Sometimes we can’t see the individual bits. The atoms that made up an oak table. The bones in…