Nascence / Chaos
Nascence
We hit the high line on the horizon
passing pines and oaks
with tattered arms outstretched.
A tragic trajectory.
Wincing against the truth of the wind
we crashed through leaves upon fingertips
too wooden to break from their ache
and snatch a shirttail or sleeve.
Gravity bound as we were.
And then there was the ground
shattering us, scattering us
into a million different people and places.
We never knew we could be
pebbles in this fern filled sea.
So lost and desperate,
so separate from who we were
now beneath these trees.
Silent and determined
gathering up our skirts to knees.
Striking against destiny.
- Darcy Scanlon Moulton
Chaos
Teri Tacoma
Acrylic
About the Creators
Darcy Scanlon Moulton
Darcy Scanlon Moulton is an artist working and living in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Her work explores humanity’s isolation and spiritual disparity from nature in the modern world. She uses emotive contemporary landscapes and dark single subject realism of flora and fauna, drawing on their innate ghostliness with monochromatic and limited palettes. She hopes to inspire a yearning for connections to the natural world and a sense of human responsibility to our ecosystem that we so readily dismiss and manipulate to our own advantage. An active member of our community, she currently serves as a board member of both the Friends of the Ipswich Public Library and the Ipswich Cultural Council.
Teri Tacoma
Teri Tacoma has had a professional life as a goldsmith and graduate gemologist from 1973 to 2012. She relocated to Ipswich, Massachusetts from Napa Valley, California in 2022. She is currently designing jewelry, découpage, painting, and ceramics.