My life
on the road.
A bus, a train
A red Volvo wagon
110 miles one way
220 miles another
Connecticut flying by
Can Connecticut be cut by a half
Hartford all the way to Stamford
or entirely plucked,
Moved farther north,
Made the Siberia
Of the Americas,
Or to the far south—Con-Tierra-cut Del Fuego
And forget about Newton to Sturbridge, MA
And Westchester County to the Bronx.
Then I could come see you every night
Sharing our nights in Brooklyn,
Our nights near the Brooklyn Bridge,
Our Nights on the Promenade.
ROBERT SHREEFTER is a former college English professor who teaches visual arts, poetry and art education in the Art Education and the Integrating Teaching Through the Arts (ITA) programs at Lesley University. His interests are literature and literacy; and the relationship between the language of poetry and visual art. Much of his own work in printmaking uses poetry for inspiration, and poetry is often embedded in the artwork. He has also taught at the Art Institute of Boston, Massachusetts College of Art and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He has been a faculty member of Art New England. He has shown in galleries at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; Lesley University; Castle Hill Truro, MA; Farm Gallery, Wellfleet, MA; Plum Gallery, Williamstown, MA; and galleries in Cambridge, England.
