Mobil

(painting by Nathaniel Williams)

The scene, familiar:

The curve as roads part, go their own ways,

the gentle sag of wires

that once bound us together

before towers arrived to separate us,

wires that still provide all-important power

to the light that promises the fuel

to keep us going into the coming dark.

The seen, unfamiliar

because immobile

in pigment and oil on canvas,

gathers space for thought

as the sign gathers twilight,

catching me like the silhouetted trees

that stitch land and sky together.

“Land and Light and Water and Air” runs at the @bryanmemorialgallery through October 30. VIsit bryangallery.org to learn more. 

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