The Artist Walking To Work
written by: Pardee Lowe Jr.
At first glance
the picture busy
a paradox given the work’s title
and the apparent
lack of motion
elsewhere.
Tall trees fade slowly
into the distance.
One has a leaf or two
another already bare of leaves
autumn-yellow, littered, inert
on the path below.
Elsewhere colors muted suggest fall
and the artist
scarely stands out
What highlights him?
a single element—
His shadow.
Pardee Lowe Jr.
Pardee Lowe, Jr. is a poet from Falls Church, VA. He has a B.A., an M.A. and a PhD in German and Ancient Icelandic, all from UC-Berkeley. His poems have appeared in Nova Bards Anthology (2020 and 2021), One Art (2021) and several Quaker publications such as Seasons of the Soul.
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