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      August 23, 2018RelicGinny Lowe Connors

      Image: “What Once Was” by Bryan DeLae. “Relic” was written by Ginny Lowe Connors for Rattle’s Ekphrastic Challenge, July 2018, and selected as the Artist’s Choice.
      It was a city once. That much we know.
      People began it. Machines mostly ran it.
      And faces of the missing accumulated.
      They became scraps, weather-stained.
       
      People began it. Machines mostly ran it.
      Spoke for them. Told what to do, where to go.
      They became scraps, weather-stained.
      Dark blue ink on skins of the living
       
      spoke for them. Said Here I am, Here I go.
      Etched in pain, mocking light.
      Only pigeons still believed in flight.
      There were no stars at night.
       
      Just a large, loud mockery of light.
      And faces of the missing accumulated.
      There were no stars at night.
      It was a city once. That much we know.

      from Ekphrastic Challenge

      Comment from the artist, Bryan DeLae

      “I was tempted to choose a poem that was quite different from the thoughts I had when creating the image, however I decided to select the one that most captured the mood of my creation. I feel that Relic did that so well and with a minimal amount of words which mirrors the bleakness and solitary feel of the image itself.”

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