by Lynne Friedman
the wind has started/ oh she is
started she blows warmer
in your ears than she looks
envelopes/ bemoans you
she has all these/let your hair
ideas because they/fly
the sun is out & favorite weeds
you know how she gets/ do you see
about shadows/the island
I love you/she stops/through your
coffee no sugar describing/she is
waiting somewhere in 2
words, on a 2 lane, a thousand
no chill/she is swirling/can you
walk to the water/one ear looking up
& the other just alkaline/polite, listen, soft
aches/she misses you/she is ringing
chimes in the neighbor’s yard/the cemetery
remembering & she stands at the beginning of the lake, looks north & thinks of all the people there past the rocks/ feels the sun brush soft/ the water in the air/ she feels the walk itself/ the flight of the clouds/beautiful/
structured hills/ the cuts of the sides like acres of chocolate
Constance Bacchus often visits the lake with her daughter. Sometimes she writes about it. Her work can be found in eclectic journals and magazines such as Cathexis Northwest, talking about strawberries all of the time and City Brink. She has more forthcoming in Cirque, Blue River Poetry and Dreich Broad.
Lynne Friedman’s work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Booth Western Art Museum (GA), Galleria Nacional (Costa Rica), the James McNeil Whistler Museum and numerous solo shows in New York City including Noho Gallery and Prince Street Gallery among others in the Chelsea District of NYC. Additionally her work was selected for the U.S. Department of State Art-in-Embassies Program for Djibouti, E. Africa and Colombo, Sri Lanka. Her work is in many corporate and private collections including Pfizer, McGraw Hill, IBM, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, Pace University, Ritz Carleton Hotels and City National Bank. She has received seven artist residency grants to work in Spain, Costa Rica, Ireland, Southern France and New Mexico. She received a BA and MFA in Art from Queens College, an Ed.D. from Columbia University and studied at the New York Studio School. Previously a college art teacher she now works full time painting.