Hudson River School
- Hudson River School:On Asher B. Durand's "Early Morning at Cold Spring" (1850)
A swish of ribbon holds the curtain Asters creep along the green carpet In the foreground: a spotted cow In its red, brown, orange, cream resplendence, A question:
How did you arrive, here, on the body's shadow: Were you a whisper sent to plumb these fields— Come to melt our mettle? No matter,
In this land of fiddles and cloudhoppers, One arrives to make a poetry of distinction.
Here, all are found under the cloth Live or die in the aerie of fallen leaves.
Marie-Ovide Gina Dorcely is a poet, translator, and nonfiction prose writer. She has received awards for her writing from the Cave Canem Foundation and the Breadloaf Writers Conferences. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Caribbean Writer, and The Portable Lower East Side. She was born in Haiti.
