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a yellow orb shifts against the shock of dark vertical bark, her back
split diagonal, flayed & a bright fleshy
suspension in the copse of trees, her hooves scrape packed dirt, legs
sway like she’s dancing on hindquarters & I could
take her body inside me, like the medicine I need, or wrap her
skinned hide, congealed blood flaking, a cloak against the coming
night & I’d wear her ears, pin her white-warning-tail to my backside
as regalia for all the deer-dead, but the painting only approaches
her in 2-d a portal of slim brushstrokes, paint upon paint, so I step
Writer’s Notebook Field Dress Portal
Sarah Audsley, photo by Anne Skidmore
Do poets always feel envious of painters? Do painters
NER 41.4) was not begun out of envy but out of admiration for the painting
Field Dress by Lauren Woods. However, I would be lying if I did not admit to often being envious of my friends who are painters. With layers of color from an invented palette, the artist’s perception of the world is realized; sometimes, it seems like an easier task than the poet’s. I am making assumptions. Of course, I do not believe that either the painter or the poet ever endeavors because it is an easy task. Writing this poem was not a commentary on a rivalry between the sister arts poetry and painting but more an experiment in the ekphrastic poetic mode.
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