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      September 15, 2021A Short Poem About Many ThingsLynn Robertson

      Image: “While Thinking About Snow and Ice” by Jojo. “A Short Poem About Many Things” was written by Lynn Robertson for Rattle’s Ekphrastic Challenge, April 2021, and selected as the Artist’s Choice.
      On the narrow edge of canvas
      an artist leaves unintended
      fingerprints, the drifting tail
      of an incomplete line, a smudge.
      Here, far from the sharp
      center of perfection, the real
      and imaginary intersect
      like belief and science.
      One underpinning the other,
      neither unsupported.

      from Ekphrastic Challenge

      Comment from the artist, Jojo

      “‘A Short Poem About Many Things’ resonated with me. It is succinct, yet beautifully philosophical. For me, this poem picks up on a deeper, contemplative feeling that I’d hoped my artwork conveyed, in spite of its initial mathematical appearance. The poem gently examines, and finds evidences of the artist beyond the geometry, the interplay between what is seen and what can be inferred.”

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