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Crossing IV Oil on board, 16" x 72"

Light on the Land

Well it's raining like hell
20 miles east of here, black clouds
dragging grey skirts along
the highway empty and flat
sort of goes that way, and back
maybe hailstones the size of apples
this time, but over here, west
partly cloudy and the sun is warm
but the wind it
feels a little heavy and damp
change is going to come along
pretty quick
does in such a big place
the ceiling is awful low here
yeah, the prairie is so flat
you naturally want to stay low.


Tom McCarthy, 2002
Inspired by
Crossing IV by Nila Oakes.








Pintura de la Nila Oakes

Panorama.

reflecting glow 

where sky meets water,

then everything goes to soft edges:

like Rothko rectangles  

burnished Gaugin ochres

and dewey Monet mists.

 

navy slate skies,

luminous sheen on a levee

and a theater behind eyelids:

Sap-stiffened green shoots

Bearing magenta and carmine blossoms.

Background black,

Shooting stars.


Bob Zatko
2004




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