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January Farmhouse BY James Applewhite
January Farmhouse (acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 24x30) by Tony Breuer
Snow on ground and Brown weeds above: patches Like fragments of dinner plate Where sun brushes clay. The washboard wall is in shadow, Holds skim milk light The way a bedsheet hung out to dry And catch cold’s cleanliness Gathers sheen from the sky. The white boards appear Translucent, like a woman’s skin When she is old and left alone The January afternoon; Seem translucent with enclosing Light I see through an upstairs window Collected in a dresser mirror; Or see from glimpsing Through front and back windows, All the way through those rooms, Through this still afternoon In her life and back into sky, Where sun slants clearly Without clay, or broom sedge, Or skin to make rosy, there Where wind’s too thin to be seen. reprinted from James Applewhite, Selected Poems © 2005, with the permission of Duke University press
Greenville resident Tony Breuer was born in Venezuela. As the son of a US Foreign Service officer, he moved often to different countries. His research and study in the field of molecular neurobiology and neurology began at Princeton and continued at Oxford and Harvard Medical School, where he received his MD. At the University of Southern Indiana, he received a BFA. Upon moving to Greenville, NC, to
teach at ECU’s Brody School of Medicine, he pursued his interest in art at ECU’s School of Art and Design, where he earned an MFA. His work has been featured in Nashville Arts Magazine and exhibited in group and solo shows. He is represented by City Art Gallery in Greenville and The Arts Company in Nashville, TN. See more about the artist and his work on his website.