Art, Life – Taylor Graham

Silent Dawn, 2019, oil on canvas

Art, Life
for a hiker killed in a fall, July 1983

seeking is the climb
dawning into night –
mountain, empty sky

edgy art of light –
a hiker’s feet set on stone,
lens on forever

lines imply movement
shapes unmoving on paper
textures spaces shades

I’ve stood at the edge
not quite becoming landscape
wordless but breathing

miles and years later
the mountain keeps me

Taylor Graham