Marsh Ruins

Decay as creative premise.

body of water surrounded with grass

Nested in cordgrass, a master work sinks. 

The artist smiles over its cracking disappearance.

Rubble is one of my primary interests, she tells us.

She imagines its rearrangement.

I mean, she adds, what might come?

There are good reasons, after all,

––and especially here, to reject nostalgia. 

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The title of this post comes from this installation by American artist Beverly Buchanan, which a recent New York Times article by Siddhartha Mitter describes as a vanishing masterpiece.

Author: Stacey C. Johnson

I keep watch and listen, mostly in dark places.

4 thoughts on “Marsh Ruins”

  1. I wonder if we (myself included) put too much emphasis on the nostalgic. Change can be a beautiful process as long as you can bring yourself to embrace the ephemeral.

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