A poem based on Sweet Fields series
Posted in Uncategorized, etc on Jan 7th, 2009
(After Sweet Fields, a photo series)
SWEET FIELDS, ALBERTA
By Patricia Robertson
Light shimmers inside light, an equation of dazzle,
a far explosion of hope. Shimmers into wheat, into heat-
hazed land, its downy skin. Overhead the blue onrush of sky.
An eye peeled back. Lidless. Black box in the hand,
turning the land upside down,
pinning light to paper where, faster than [...]