High School students from a 2016 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 2016 and wrote Ekphrastic poems inspired by their favorite works. The Second WEN Triennial exhibit finished it’s three-year run at the University of Kentucky’s Special Collections Research Center December 16, 2016. We’ve still got a couple poems to share though! Here is the eighth of ten:
Author: Isabella Dixon
Art title & Artist: Divine, by Marsha Sweet
Divine
Misshapen, halfway between god and human
different, untamed. Neither man nor woman
isolated, misunderstood/representing the balance
of good and evil. Ethereal?
I am neither man nor woman
human or god.
I rule the in-between
where dark meets light
good meets evil.
I am mistaken for a hero
misrepresented as a villain.
I am mortal.
I am divine.
