Lake Effect
Porcelain, mixed media, 2016
Poem courtesy of Debra Marquart
50” x 48” x 18”
LAKE EFFECT
Snow for days, let it the weather woman is always wrong, we rise these pearl white mornings made warm by your long back east of Lake Michigan, unexpected always coming great crystal flakes float outside your windows white pine branches lowered heavy with snow we rise to the meteorologist’s apologies this upland peninsula so shaped like a paw or an oven mitt people will raise their hands a kind of swearing to and point to the spot where they’re from this place in the heart of the palm where I found you a bit left of center lake effect people around here say to things that happen all the things wonderful or strange they can never hope to predict or explain.
© Debra Marquart
