From the British visual artist-turned-Santa Cruz-poet, two selections about visitors.
Tonight
Tonight
On the window
The moths
Are big
And
Regal
Like Souls of Pharaohs,
Pausing for a time
In flight
For me to see
And wonder
At their magnificence.
Drawn to the light
They rest a while
Gowned
In
Ermine.
Glorious
In their persona,
Just an expression of who they are;
A moment of consciousness
On the edge of time.
Every evening moths appear on my lighted window
high in the Santa Cruz hills. They are night visitors,
personal messengers.
Spider Nest
I found a spider nest
Under a ledge in the kitchen.
It seemed to have two eyes,
Black as black
With a body of white fur.
Whose universe is this?
What life within
Living an age old process
Of birth
And death
On the arm of a galaxy.
Diana Hobson was born and brought up in the England. She earned her Masters at the Royal College of Art, London and has exhibited and taught in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and the United States. Her work is in museum and private collections worldwide. Leaving a vibrant career in Britain as a visual artist, Diana moved 11 years ago to rural Santa Cruz. Here she began to explore completely new media—nature-based art video installation, poetry and sound in collaboration with composer Susan Alexjander. Diana’s current poetry, she says, is emerging from her connection to the land, influenced by the plant kingdom and insect life of a particular habitat in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Local Poets, Local Inspiration, edited by Robert Sward, appears weekly online and monthly in Santa Cruz Weekly. Selections are by invitation.
