Barbara Crooker
Pavane
Spring this year has been nothing but cold.
Yesterday, snow flurries spackled the dead
grass like dandruff, not starry flakes that laid
their lace table cloth on the cold ground.
The daffodils' green thumbs have ground
to a halt, closed their gold mouths.
March is, I think, the cruelest month,
promising warmth, then taking it back.
This morning's walk, icy wind at my back.
I think the calendar will never turn its page.
But it will, April's sweet breath starting the pageant,
the great parade: hyacinths, tulips, then summer's roses.
Sprouts push up through the duff, in hedgerows.
Spring, like last year, never gets old.
Fog Tritina
Fog crept in overnight, silently
filling the space between earth and sky
with its white breath, muffled feathers
And the geese poured out of the quarry, feathers
of fallen snow, wingbeats so silent
you could barely hear them row across a sky
no longer visible, its usual blue
now part of the fog-scape, its feathery
breath, a snow globe shaken in silence
The crafty fog quietly erases the sky, fills it with downy feathers
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| Brittany Vogel is an award-winning, New Jersey-based painter known for her bold color and beautifully expressive line. Her Powerful Women series has struck a chord well beyond the gallery walls, earning inclusion in multiple exhibitions including a Monmouth Museum x Smithsonian Exhibition and coverage in numerous press outlets, including Yahoo! News and feature spreads in TapInto and 07030 Magazine.
Vogel's work lives in public spaces as much as private collections. She created a 12-foot interactive mural, Suffragists Marching, in the Columbus Circle subway station, and has delivered artist talks at the Bruce Museum and the Hoboken Historical Museum. Her achievements include the competitive Merit Scholarship from the Art Students League of New York and features in three consecutive Monmouth Museum Annual Juried Exhibitions. She has mounted solo shows of both her Powerful Women and Order vs. Chaos series in New York City and New Jersey.
Whether she's covering a subway wall or a canvas, Vogel's aim is the same: command attention from across the room, then reward a closer look with a rich, layered story worth lingering over.
Brittany continues to paint, exhibit, and expand the Powerful Women series from her studio in Hoboken, New Jersey, adding new women and new stories to the collection.
For additional information, please visit www.BrittanyVogelArt.com.
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