Skin in the Game: a Retrospective after painter Joan Semmel 1. I move [over] my own territory partnered / alone the same angling so as best to inhabit the cardinal directions the short and the long of whatever frame / room / role I am in the darker line of each meeting surprising even me as it emerges from the confluence of two [or more] bright effluvia 2. By now my materials are so familiar as to be effortless some might say all but exhausted [but not I] I love / live by extracting color from the wrinkled tubes choosing the broad or the narrow brush big enough for a goddess or a person in miniature 3. They offer me a retrospective and I smile Janus-faced by nature always looking both forward and backward slipping earlier canvasses from storage and holding them up to my most recent iteration Devon Balwit When not teaching, Devon Balwit chases chickens in Portland, OR. Her most recent collections are Rubbing Shoulders with the Greats [Seven Kitchens Press, 2020] and Dog-Walking in the Shadow of Pyongyang [Nixes Mate Books, 2021]. For more, visit her website: https://pelapdx.wixsite.com/devonbalwitpoet
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June 2025
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