High School students from a summer writing camp, Words With Wings (organized by the Missoula Writing Collaborative) visited the Wood Engravers’ Network Triennial Exhibition and Dramatic Movements: Frederic Remington’s Early Engravings, 1882–1893 at the Montana Museum of Art & Culture in July and wrote Ekphrastic poems inspired by their favorite works. Catch the WEN Triennial exhibit at the University of Kentucky’s Special Collections Research Center starting October 15, on view through December 23, 2016. We’ll be sharing the poems along with images of the engraving “muses” each week. Here is the fifth of ten:
Author: Alta Murray
Art title & Artist: The Trees are Coming Into Leaf, John Haney
Swish
goes the wind
as it makes its way
among the tree.
Down, down come the leaves
that are lightly falling
like the first snow.
Colors of reds, oranges, and
yellows all swirling down
until you can’t tell
them apart
from on the ground.
