On Me Fait Signe (I Am Signed) Notes to self upon entering a painting: come look, let something go. Stir a feeling, search for something. Push into a tangle of colour. Be brave. Sign up. Add your name in ink or type: a loan, a doctor’s note, a check. Let lines and shapes speak: make a street, a scrim, a promise. A patch of blue, a rub of sorrel. Not scripture set in stone, not earmarked walls or boundaries but geometries that give you height, a sense of flight across a country. What language it is I don’t know but I love to read it. As if from a plane cutting through cloud, blocks of shapes interlocking, states reduced to abstraction. Breaking. Not knowing what it will become. The glow of a capitol dome far below coming into view, a monument. Sharon Tracey Sharon Tracey is a writer and editor and author of the poetry collection, What I Remember Most Is Everything (All Caps Publishing, 2017). Her poems have appeared inEgg Mom Review, Tule Review, Common Ground Review, Light: A Journal of Photography and Poetry, Ekphrasis, The Ekphrastic Review and elsewhere. Art and nature are recurring themes in her work.
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June 2025
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