​Georgia O'Keeffe's Barn With Snow (1933), by Brook J. Sadler

Barn With Snow, by Georgia O'Keeffe (USA) 1933

​Georgia O'Keeffe's Barn With Snow (1933)
 
Desirous of a mind
cleanly lined
 
like snow along the plane
of a barn roof--
 
I approach the page.
Snow edges each window pane,
 
with its proof
of quietude.
 
Snow on the ground
rests like a settled
 
argument.
Snow encloses,
 
like a thick integument
against all sound,
 
a tidy scene.
I mean:
 
One reaches an age
when one supposes
 
silence suffices
for certitude.

Brook J. Sadler

Brook J. Sadler: "In 2019, I was honoured to be a Featured Poet at the Dali Museum Poetry Series in St. Petersburg. My writing has also been supported by a residency at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and workshops at Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and the Vermont College of Fine Arts, among others. My poems have been published with many literary journals, including The Greensboro Review, The Missouri Review, The Cortland Review, Boiler Journal, and ROAR. My prose essays appear in Ms. Magazine, Pleiades, Aquifer: Florida Review Online, Women's Review of Books, and elsewhere. I also publish scholarly essays in many academic journals and books."