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Public Art Projects in Rochester, NH

October 7, 2010 Leave a Comment

Two public art projects sponsored by Art Esprit in Rochester, NH, include my work in conjunction with artists Larry Reynolds and Diane St Jean.

Read an article about “The Shoes of Rochester” in the Rochester Times and in the Art Esprit blog. Click here to download a pdf to learn more about the project. The shoe sculpture that my poem was written on was a skate (Years ago, Rochester had an indoor roller skating rink called the Humoresque.)

Manny Skating

At the far end of the frozen pond, looping

and dipping, arms locked behind his back, he bends

and shifts on long, supple legs. To watch him skate

is to follow a swallow’s flight.

To watch him roller skate! waltzing around the indoor rink

through a smog of pink lights, a pretty girl on his arm,

weaving her through the fabric of slower couples

like a tailor’s needle.

 

Learn more about the project “If These Rocks Could Talk” here.

Stones: A History

Glacier

(retreating)

Notches

(clawed)

Low coastal hills

(beating sea, glacial till)

A tombolo of sand and rocks

(tumbled)

New land (Dreamland)

(rising)

Above high water

hot summer stones for Piscataqua to dry fish

striated stones under the boots of tall ship sailors

flattened stones for Sunday skipping

Among stones

the purple mussel wampum shell

sea glass

(rum & medicine & Coke bottles, old car blinkers)

twists of polypropylene

plastics like beached jellyfish

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