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 16, 2016. We’ll be sharing the poems along with images of the engraving “muses”. Here is the seventh of ten:
Author: Daisy Kulina
Art title & Artist: Wild Turkeys II, by Evan Charney
Christmas
Together
like the three that wait
hidden by the ink splotchy shadows
they spread
the touch of a pink hand in the snow spread
at the sound of the rifle
resembling water dumped on dry dirt.
log cabin–lodge pole pines
family of turkeys–a warm dinner
a new dusting of snow
Christmas Day!
