Poems:Kelly-DeWitt
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Van Gogh, Landscape At Twilight
- forthcoming in The Book of Insects (Spruce Street Press)
A feverflower and toadflax shine laid on in strokes like agitated flocks of birds fanning out behind the layer of visible twilight. Wheat and marigold colors. An ochre road bisects the fields and ends where sight does in two pinched-off nubs, like short dark strings Atropos will soon cut off. (The same road painted by another could brighten again at sunrise, might continue on through the tangled fig-violet thicket he has wedged at the horizon beyond the iris roof of the chateau between pear trees.) Someone leans through a window gone long ago to ruin, in the musk of evening's damp grain and floral scents. A single quick stroke of ivory black conceals her figure in a sunless brick of shadow. We see - or imagine we do - how one bare arm stretches deliciously into the oncoming night, into the racket of blue flies, while the sun turns everything to fire again, then dies. (That blue roof still holds steady against the torrent of sky.)
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Susan Kelly-DeWitt
- Susan Kelly-DeWitt is poet and painter who holds a B.A. and M.A. from CSU Sacramento. She has exhibited her art at Excentrique Gallery, SMUD Gallery, Matrix Gallery, Phoenix Gallery, Blooming Art, Original Works, Peach Pit/Barton Gallery, State Capitol Cafeteria Gallery, Archival Framing, Accurate Art Gallery, Sutter Creek, Winkler Gallery and Davis Art Center. She is a past recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship for Poetry from Stanford University. She has published four collections of poetry; her work also appears in many national anthologies and journals.