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Jersey Rain

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Jersey Rain  by  gregg   chadwick Via Flickr: Gregg Chadwick 30"x40" oil on linen 2015   Inspired by Robert Pinsky and Robert Chadwick  JERSEY RAIN by  Robert Pinsky Now near the end of the middle stretch of road What have I learned? Some earthly wiles. An art. That often I cannot tell good fortune from bad, That once had seemed so easy to tell apart. The source of art and woe aslant in wind Dissolves or nourishes everything it touches. What  roadbank  gullies and ruts it doesn’t  mend It carves  the deeper , boiling tawny in ditches. It spends  itself regardless  into the ocean. It stains and scours and makes things dark or bright: Sweat of the moon, a shroud of benediction, The chilly liquefaction of day to night, The Jersey rain, my rain, soaks all as one: It smites Metuchen, Rahway, Saddle River, Fair Haven, Newark, Little Silver, Bayonne. I feel it churning even in fair weather To craze distincti...

Salish Sea

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Salish Sea   Gregg Chadwick 30”x24” oil on linen 2014

The Painted Word

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The Painted Word Gregg Chadwick 36"x48" oil on linen 2013 “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only way I know it. Is there any other way?” - Emily Dickinson

In the Hanami Rain

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Gregg Chadwick In the Hanami Rain 40"x30" oil on linen 2012