The road at noon is bright and dusty brown
Taking the turns in stride through each adobe town
Roadside shacks sprout drying jalapeno vines
Tall pines jut from solid rock withstanding Time's
Withering winds, scorching bad land sun ‘
Til mountain night calls hell's time done
As snake and scorpion emerge to dance
A desert jig, to slither and chance
The dark to gather darkness' loaded fates
Immune to conscience's loves and hates.
The road is dusty, barren brown,
Aromatic piney peppers from fences through town,
The mesa north, flat and wind worn
Looms ahead, as rocky peaks lurk forlorn,
Shadows false shade shall not provide
Sanctuary from the relentless sun's eye,
From blistering noonday heat, till climbing
Mountains seems no trouble like arriving
Into my worried ear in fretful half-dream
The ride should stay uneventful as a nap by the stream
To sooth my feet, to wash the dust
From my tired eyes,I do know I must
Get some sleep before I dare to test
The desert's lethal promise to unrested
Travelers, and durable spiders and snakes
Whose underestimations of danger are their last made mistakes
© Celeste Plowden 2010
Chris and Rollo
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About Me
- Celeste Plowden
- I learned the art of acrylic and pastel painting through private instruction, after having spent my career as a designer of printed fabrics in the New York market place. I am a graduate of the College of Design, Art and Architecture at the University of Cincinnati, with a major in the History of Art, 1977. Later, I studied printed textile design at Parsons School of Design, in New York. Immediately afterward, I began free lance work for several design studios in the garment district of NYC, where I did re-coloration work for printed apparel fabrics, and sold my own designs through Bread and Butter Designs,also located in New York. In addition, during the 1980's and 1990's, I designed a number of needlecraft and stencil books for Dover Publications. Currently, I am working on a series of exotic birds and other animals done in acrylic paint, with a palette knife, for texture and brilliant color. I consider my paintings to be representational or impressionistic in nature, and I use fantasy colors because what I see often makes me feel these colors,and what would make an interesting composition, rather than using realistic colors.
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