Painting: Oil on wood/size unspecified, 2007, by Eddie Tang, Seattle, Washington.
Blue Norther
mountaintop snow
quickens the river
of a Blue Norther's
journey
colder than stilly
rigid frost.
Poem © 2011 by R. Burnett Baker
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- R. Burnett Baker
- Rick Burnett Baker currently is self-employed as a narrative photographer, and is a member of the National Press Photographer's Association (NPPA), and the Photographic Society of America (PSA). A native Texan, Baker is a graduate of State University of New York (Albany) with a BA in Asian Studies, (minor in classical Chinese literature), a Graduate Certificate in US Urban Policy, and a Masters (MRP) in Regional and Urban Planning, Third World. He has worked with a mining company in Honduras, with a civil engineering firm in Saudi Arabia, and traveled andworked throughout Southeast Asia, China, and Northern Africa with Halliburton for nearly a decade, based out of Singapore. During his years living in Singapore he was also known for his radio and television voice-over work. Baker returned to the US in 1985 to complete academic interests and continues to live in New York.
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shivers...
ReplyDeletewow...
ReplyDeletelove the flow.
haunting words.
sounds pret ty cold
ReplyDeleteBrrrrr!!
ReplyDeleteMakes me cold just looking at the painting & reading your words!
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