Sky Blue Sky
Draw it
blue graphite
blown
across the page
or seal it
in a bottle
a silk scarf
might float
across
the room
her ghost
beside the bed
taking off
her clothes
skin
goosebumps
sky
the way
the wind
passed through
Emily Dickinson’s
window
that afternoon
in August
look
from your sealed
glass height
to feel
the wind
again
try
remember
the color
of the sky
that September
morning
try
remember
the sound
(On Wind (through Emily Dickinson’s window, August 14, 2012, 3:22 pm), by Spencer Finch)
Cynthia Randolph reading: Sky Blue Sky
Artist, designer, and poet Cynthia Randolph was born in Washington, D.C. She earned a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture, with a minor in Photography, from Cranbrook Academy of Art; a Master of Business Administration in Design Strategy from the California College of Art; and a Bachelor of Science in English Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with minors in Creative Writing, Psychology, and Fine Art.
Randolph has received a Vermont Studio Center Artist Grant, George B. Hill and Therese Muller Creative Writing Awards, and has exhibited throughout the United States and abroad. She lives in San Francisco, California, where she is working on a collection of ekphrastic poetry, responding to contemporary art and culture.