Beyond Eden – Taylor Graham

North of Eden, 2022, oil on canvas Beyond Eden   on this giddy height what words can bridge the abyss? catch breath – breathe deeper   *who asks for poems about loss? this image – peaks at sunset, sunrise   Taylor Graham North of Eden, 2022, Oil on canvas

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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…

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Glacial Ghosts – Taylor Graham

Nanutak in Yellow (Apparitions and Glacial Ghosts), 2021 Glacial Ghosts   the mountain’s sunlit hand, stone fingers pointing skyward – and the spaces between   an eroding itch between the fingers the hand beckoning, guiding you upward –   and the itch that pulls you off your bearing daring you past your caution   drawing…

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Primordial – Taylor Graham

Primordial Sound (Center of the Universe), 2021 Primordial   Three days of wind and flowing water, pulse of brain and heart, raven, bits of trail talk, no other voices.   Topo map marked with our route – accomplished. Now driving home, symphony on car radio   but it jars. I’m still tuned to boot-step after…

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To the Mountain – Taylor Graham

Range of Light (Triptych), 2022, oil on canvas To the Mountain   You rise in my mind magnetic, your peaks hold north like an old compass.   Cold winters ago we searched you for a snowman buried under snow.   Thickets tangle us, you let us loose in meadow, your heights flowering cloud.   Taylor…

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North of Eden – Anton Nemeth

North of Eden, 2022 North of Eden Ten thousand pastel ghosts collide Melting sunset stolen hues Into shifting ragged shapeless lines Moving borders of misperception As departing daylight sets A cold and empty magic Storehouse of unlit tombstones Standing somewhat sentinel Over Edgeless shapes fading silently Toward un-mooned blue-black darkness Fleet with afterthoughts of re-reflected…

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THE PLUNGE – Lara Gularte

Plunge to the Poloti, 2021 THE PLUNGE The moon brims over, we begin in white waters, reborn, we emerge.   Lara Gularte Plunge to the Poloti, 2021, Graphite on paper

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WHITE WINDS – Lara Gularte

White Winds, 2021 WHITE WINDS Wind blows in my face archangels bring light a dance of pure air.   Lara Gularte White winds, 2021, Oil on canvas

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Dream of a Harpy – Lara Gularte

Visions in a Dark Mirror, 2022 DREAM OF A HARPY She gazes into her Cheval mirror, searches for a reflection.   At the vanishing point, in the mirror’s depth of field, she finds herself in profile, a mythic raptor.   From inside the mirror to open window, an upward flight.   She rises into sky…

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