The Poetry of Artist-in-Residence Bradley Harrison
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| Bradley Harrison reads his poems in Better Farm's Art Barn July 27. |
Bradley spent the month of July at Better Farm through the betterArts residency program, which seeks to provide an opportunity for creative exploration and growth to artists, writers, and musicians within the context of Better Farm's dynamic environment.
Below is one of the poems Bradley wrote while at
the farm. The piece utilizes words lifted from blog entries penned by Sustainability Education students at Better Farm during Bradley's stay.
Barred Rock Ameraucana
To break I became a farm
of flowers.
To make from my fabric
a lampshade
I stumbled into woods
on rough cut legs—
Fermentation of loosestrife —
My pretty bit drowning—
Such out rung petals
in the cloth I used
in the room
with the rundown furniture,
rustic in the rinse
of handmade light.
I had hoped it much darker,
this handful of glass growing
deep in the bark,
an hour lastly
straining the free-floating
yeasts and the birds
with a tendency to vigil
the hillside, another
kind of clearing
cut just
to the nails.
Like what you see? Read more:
http://www.memorious.org/?id=
http://smokinggluegun.com/
http://www.muzzlemagazine.com/
http://www.dmqreview.com/
http://haydensferryreview.
To break I became a farm
of flowers.
To make from my fabric
a lampshade
I stumbled into woods
on rough cut legs—
Fermentation of loosestrife —
My pretty bit drowning—
Such out rung petals
in the cloth I used
in the room
with the rundown furniture,
rustic in the rinse
of handmade light.
I had hoped it much darker,
this handful of glass growing
deep in the bark,
an hour lastly
straining the free-floating
yeasts and the birds
with a tendency to vigil
the hillside, another
kind of clearing
cut just
to the nails.
Like what you see? Read more:
http://www.memorious.org/?id=
http://smokinggluegun.com/
http://www.muzzlemagazine.com/
http://www.dmqreview.com/
http://haydensferryreview.
