I Walked out in January
Taunja Thomson
snow: bones of shrews mice birds
slowly rotting flesh
joining mahogany spotted yellow
leaves with ends curling
to savor the secret under tightly
packed snow: patchwork of death
bodies that once fluttered
sang scurried created
more life
to savor the slow-spinning psalm
of snowflakes burying
the almond feathers of owls
yellow eyes insistent speech
under the syntax of snow
to savor memory as it falls
whirls lies becomes encrusted
with cold judgment
melts into a ganzfeld--
only the skin fur claws
of what was.
Maureen Cantara
Taunja Thomson currently resides in Cold Spring, Kentucky, with her husband and seven cats, where she practices water gardening, terrarium creation, and Flamenco dancing.
Artist Maureen Cantara lives and works in New York City. Cantara grew up in southern Maine where she was inspired by the ever-changing beauty of the rocky coastline. After living in Boston and New York with careers in marketing and finance, she is now devoting her time to painting.
Cantara has taken courses at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and The Art Students League in Manhattan. She recently completed an abstract workshop at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in County Mayo, Ireland. Her work has been shown in various galleries throughout the New York area.
She feels very strongly that art is about communicating in a way that can’t be done with words – whether it’s the beauty of the landscape or creating a piece of work that achieves balance despite there being an embedded conflict.