In Dublin National Gallery the Turner Watercolours are on exhibit only for the month of January.
http://www.nationalgallery.ie/en/aboutus/pressroom/Current_Press_Releases/Turner.aspx
Easier to access than Newgrange on the December Solstice, a trip to the exhibition has become an annual pilgrimage for me- to celebrate the new year.
January
Out in the woods I stoop
to pick up sticks that click
underfoot
In the distance a fire thaws
the ice river in me
In the house I see
cobwebs stretched
across rafters
In the distance- scrubbed floors
and the smell of beeswax
In the gallery Turner's water-
colours merge into scapes of sea
and cloud
and mountain slope,
all fused in a January dusk
Outside- the frozen season
canvas by canvas melts
and we stretch
once more
towards Spring
Copyright with Cathy Leonard 2017
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