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Geometry

—“First Around the Mark,” Sarah Wesson

1.

It looks so simple:

a black square,

three trapezoids–

two orange, one white,

eleven white triangles,

one right, the rest acute or obtuse,

transformed by the mind,

become an ocean, buoys, a race.

It looks simple as sailing–

until you try it.

2.

Triangles are so often involved:

What is a trapezoid,

if not a triangle 

that has lost

its head?

3.

Triangles are so often involved,

but there’s more than one

way to make a 

paper sail-

boat.

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“Nature’s Playground” is in the Middle Room at the Bryan Memorial Gallery until September 3, 2023.

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"Treasures on the Edge"

“Treasures on the Edge”

—Elizabeth Nelson, artist

I gaze beneath the wash of white-gray-blue

over shapes that might be much-tumbled glass, 

wrecked bladder wrack, a drifting twig,

and fall into August mornings long, long past,

perched on eons-worn, sun-warmed granite,

watching periwinkles rough and smooth, dog whelks,

sometimes limpets, sometimes sea stars or urchins,

all searching for food in tide-flooded crevices

before the water’s rough return forces them to cling

to the closest surface and wait for the turbulence to clear.

poem (c) Katherine Quimby Johnson 2023, all rights reserved

elizabeth-nelson.com

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“Nature Through Abstraction” is in the Middle Room at the Bryan Memorial Gallery until December  2023.

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Choices

“In Transit” - Matthew Gustafson

A car, elevated, gold-lit

like some medieval icon,

its warmth contained;

a car, constrained,

another in front, a third behind,

comfort, going nowhere.

Person, dog, pedestrians

dark against the snow, free

and frozen, in the moment,

bound maybe for, maybe from

the clear crossing

between the shining rails,

it’s impossible to tell.

Which would you rather be?

gustophotos.com

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“Nature’s Playground” is in the Middle Room at the Bryan Memorial Gallery until September 3, 2023..

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A Day, Sailing

—“Day Sailing,” Steve Clark

Try this: one day

no plans, no musts, no shoulds, only

sky, mountain-reflecting lake,

and wind

swirling, 

stretching canvas

to a curve,

powering the sketch of a line

across the water,

a line that leaves no mark,

except in the mind.

Try this, one day.

www.steveclark.com

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“Nature’s Playground” is in the Middle Room at the Bryan Memorial Gallery until September 3, 2023..

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I'm trying something new. Ekphrastic poems based on works at the Bryan Memorial Gallery. Weekly posts while an exhibit is up.

The Annual Outing

Ken Rush, Emerald Lake

George had his Sunday,

    carefully composed dots

    of light and dark,

    bustled skirts, demure bonnets,

    verticals of parasols and tree boles

fine for leisurely, outwardly constrained, nineteenth-century Paris.

Vermont summers are too short.

We bustle, unbonneted,

    to spread ourselves in every patch

    of sun, to catch the light,

    the welcome warmth

    (except on days so hot, so humid,

    we seek air-conditioned comfort,

    perhaps in the nearest gallery),

Unbound, stripped down, we relax

    In splashes and vibrant slashes

    of light and dark,

the verticals of tree boles the sole hint

some things remain true, no matter the trappings.

Parks & Recreation is a collaborative show by Bryan Memorial Gallery & Bennington Museum, depicting some of Vermont’s 55 state parks

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Under a Golden Moon

This was a beginning:

Smoke lifting like mist

from the glow of coal and flame,

as we sat, humans around a fire,

listening while words

took the path of smoke,

rising into this night

under a golden moon,

Words, fire, and moon,

each a ward against the darkness,

its beasts and monsters.

Together, huddled close,

we listened,

as the storyteller sang.

                                  —Erik Koeppel “Golden Moon”

Erik Koeppel

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“Legacy 2023” showcases the art of the Bryan Memorial Gallery’s top viewers-response artists. It will be in the gallery all year.

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Urgency

After flirting for weeks–

sap rising only to retreat

each evening–there comes a day

when the maples flush, rouging the hillsides,

and spring arrives in sunny coltsfoot

and the urgent peeps 

of hopeful tree frogs

looking for love while the sunset

once more lavishes its colors

before the world goes dark.

                    —Lisa Kent, “A Sense of Urgency”

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“Small Members Group Show” presents the works of 16 artists through May 7, 2023. 

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One Pear

      on William Hoyt “Golden Pear”

That poet’s icebox plums

eaten in secret

have nothing

on this blushing pear,

a gift wrapped in gold

and gleaming ripe

for sharing.

                           Katherine Quimby, 4/7/23

“Legacy 2023” showcases the art of the Bryan Memorial Gallery’s top viewers-response artists. It will be in the gallery all year.

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North Country Spring        

—T.M. Nicholas, “Northern Fields”

 

Other people have the spring of song,

of daffy-down-dillies and cherry blossom time,

other people walk in fields of green.

 

Up here spring is spare

as a blackbird’s lonesome flute,

a long, slow erosion of snow—

 

even after a winter like the last,

made of many thaws.

 

TM Nicholas

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“Legacy 2023” showcases the art of the Bryan Memorial Gallery’s top viewers-response artists. It will be in the gallery all year.

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Color Splashes

“Descent into Fall” - Louise Arnold

From green through yellow-orange-red

to brown and down,

the descent is chillingly fast,

lasts weeks at most,

a reminder we all fade in the end.

And yet, how glorious those days are,

colors splash, dashes of confetti across the hills,

every shade and hue and tint,

(not stinting purple and lavender in roadside asters),

as if to empty the paint box, clear the palette,

with a final stroke to have given our all.

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

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U Pick

“Tree of Knowledge” by James Rauchman 

The apple dangles, green as the first day.

Like in size unto the blinding light,

plucked, its verdant curves might serve

to shield eyes from seeing too much.

Under teeth, its crisp flesh would crack,

droplets sprinkling a baptism sweet and tart,

irresistible.

If temptation is resisted, would it not fall

all the same, to rest on leaves

of grass or of the very tree?

One thing I know: Whether I bite

or refrain, winter will come.

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

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“Mobil” 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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