A snowman cares about our memory water

We melt into pastels, ooze onto wove-tight canvas, dry in the vaults of minds,

A snowman cares about our memory of water

We melt into pastels,
ooze onto wove-tight canvas,
dry in the vaults of minds,
in museums
revealed as stains on whitewashed walls:
outlines clear, but gossamer,
insides translucent (as) ice.
In this world of freeze and thaw,
of mist upon a southern breeze,
a snowman sees
us through short-lived endeavors,
our wonderment, our awe,
for only water
contains forever.

© 2009 Kåre Enga [166.19] 2009-04-02

The title comes from the installation of art by Mary Ann Papanek-Miller in the Missoula Art Museum, Montana. This is an example of an ekphrastic poem. (as) appears in one version not the other.

Published on-line at Artini 2009-07:

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