MARSDEN HARTLEY Soliloquy in Dogtown

SEPT 2012

By Vincent Katz

Marsden Hartley, “In the Moraine, Dogtown Common, Cape Ann” (1931). Oil on academy board. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; University purchase. Inscribed on verso: Teach us to care and not to care / Teach us to sit still / Even among these rocks / T. S. Eliot, Ash Wednesday.

clouds over land
land filled form
flows floods scratches
Boulder and Brake
be less reactive, at
one’s pace, sinews,
flows, node, scratch,
idea on paper, details,
loop, move out to only
shadow, gentle freak
dark is lush, clouds
streams or fish, suave
rocks, stem
obstacle, serene
sweep, burn,
green, green, grey,
testing, boundary,
energy flush

27 Pleasant St. // Gloucester, MA

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