The National Writing Project’s Write Across America project stopped in South Dakota this week, and I’ve been slowly looking over the prompts and resources. What caught my eye was the Sculpture Walk in Sioux Falls, a collection of fascinating works of art. I’ve used a few for my morning poems over the last few days. The links lead to the artwork that inspired the words for each poem.
whose fingers
clench the gift
of discoverywhose eyes
drift towards
an open skywhose streets
take in all of
the wandererswhose kindness
never seems to
pass us byinspired by “Be Kind,” by by Joe & Terry Malesky
Sioux Falls Sculpture Walk
https://sculpturewalksiouxfalls.com/sculptures/2024/be-kind/
A little too late now
to wonder whether
the wind will take
what it needs
We’ve gone to seed
Loosening our insides
to release soft strands
of whatever it is that
leads us believe
We’ve gone to seed
inspired by “Gone To Seed,” by Nathan Johansen
Sioux Falls Sculpture Walk
https://sculpturewalksiouxfalls.com/sculptures/2024/gone-to-seed/
Bending ears
inward, a cyclone
taking shape
in armature
and concretewe treat the world
as one, frozen,
spoken, poets
like us, we look
to find beauty
in the brokeninspired by “Beauty In The Broken,” by Joe & Terry Malesky
Sioux Falls Sculpture Walk
https://sculpturewalksiouxfalls.com/sculptures/2024/beauty-in-the-broken/
And …
then what?
twisted
and curved
from bottom on up
to the tippity top
with an iron tail
all bundled
in contained
exclamation
and no visible
connection,
only empty thoughts
to the right and
empty thoughts to
the left, for we fill in
the gaps with
imagination
And …
then what?
inspired by “and ..” by Paul Reimer
Sioux Falls Sculpture Walk
https://sculpturewalksiouxfalls.com/sculptures/2024/and/
Peace (and bent poems of words and material),
Kevin