Portrait of Marsden Hartley, undated, Helen Stein (1896-1964) Cape Ann Museum

Marsden Hartley’s eyes

Marsden Hartley’s eyes

stare out of Helen Stein’s portrait

into this Gallery ringed by his portraits

of the boulders of Dogtown

the paintings mostly red

or green, but always blue

like his eyes that stared outward

when the oils were wet

where the granite sat against the sky.

(Cape Ann Museum  September 28, 2012)

Dan Wilcox is the host of the Third Thursday Poetry Night at the Social Justice Center in Albany, N.Y. and is a member of the poetry performance group “3 Guys from Albany”.  He is a frequent visitor to Gloucester and his book of poems Gloucester Notes  is forthcoming this year from Foothills Publishing.  You can read his Blog about the Albany poetry scene at   dwlcx.blogspot.com