Read this post in tandem with the blogpost and photos at blog.amynelsonhahn.info, for more details about the beautiful sunset it refers to and the origins of the word "inscape", attributed to poet and philosopher Gerard Manley Hopkins. Inscape was also the name of my high school art and literary journal, which, by no small coincidence, was supervised by my great mentor, John Ianacone. His photographs, in part, inspired me to write this piece, even though it is based on some of Andrew's fine photographs of sunsets in Valatie.
Skyscape
The burnt-out etching
of the base, base landscape
cannot draw my mind
from the eloquent estate,
the silk-sewn sky that floats
and catches every instant color,
every sampled possibility
the eye can imagine
in its most drifting thoughts
and haphazard dreams.
It hardly seems appropriate
that here, amid this almost-vision,
I should capture days of praise
at half-night, far beyond its random
center in my line of finding,
far beyond the fluid, loose, prismatic
haunts inundated once
behind a plaint facade of light.
Copyright (c) 2011 Amy Nelson Hahn
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