Studio at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA

 

 

Three Poems by Carla Drysdale

Genesis (after a painting by Ken Dubin)   Undriven layers of blizzarding diamonds underpin paradox. An absence of irony. You have no actual whereabouts. Clock is a quaint relic. Trust the pattern's dogma.   Carla Drysdale

Culmination (after a painting by Ken Dubin)   Blue oblivion lifted. Everything lay behind veils, and the unstoppable spiral, wound around rails of tears. A calm mind. Mother, are you there? What we donít know, lives us.   Carla Drysdale

Drama Mist (after a painting by Ken Dubin)   If a line. I searched. Effort ate all my conclusions. The ambivalence that binds us also divides us. Wings would take us closer to. In the land beyond dark horse or pretense, fast cars recede.   Carla Drysdale