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 sixth of ten:
Author: Alta Murray
Art title & Artist: Paul Revere Museum, Boston, MA, R.P. Hale
As I walk along the rickety
cobble streets
and see the old wooden
and brick buildings
standing up straight
as if they were being counted off
one by one
those building
with their wooden walls
and cobblestone streets
I’m taken back to when
I was young
back when I lived on
a cobblestone street
and heard the whinny
of horses each day
and the occasional
street catfight.
Now,
as I walk down
this street
it’s like memory lane.
I think to myself,
what a wonderful world.
