EKPHRASIS : Art Describing Art : 2015
California Writers Club, Mendocino Branch : A Collaboration : Artists Co-Op of Mendocino
Writers Providing Works for Visual Artists Responses
Nancy McLelland “Your Life is Scattered on the Lawn”
Provided work for the responding visual artist,
Shanti Balsé “There’s Something about Memories...”
Your Life Is Scattered on the Lawn
by Nancy Harris McLelland
You carry a well-packed U-Haul box to the car,
trip over the hose, fall flat, arms out,
as if to thrust a desperate gift
on someone passing by.
The street is empty.
No one walks a dog,
rides past on a bike.
No one stoops to help.
And there’s your life scattered on the lawn.
You look at the contents spilled from the box
important only an hour ago
and you cry for your life and your stuff.
by Nancy Harris McLelland
You carry a well-packed U-Haul box to the car,
trip over the hose, fall flat, arms out,
as if to thrust a desperate gift
on someone passing by.
The street is empty.
No one walks a dog,
rides past on a bike.
No one stoops to help.
And there’s your life scattered on the lawn.
You look at the contents spilled from the box
important only an hour ago
and you cry for your life and your stuff.
