Unforgivable
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An osprey hovers, waiting to snatch a bluefish or striped bass to carry upriver to feed its fledglings.
“Did you know they feed them to them live,” Jack says.
“Nice,” Mel answers, “Would you like another almond?”
Jack presses his cheek to the kitchen window.
“Must be a hell of a life,” he says.
“Out there? Or in here?”
Mel hold the nuts out to him. His cheek is discolored and swollen. He touches a finger to the bruise.
“There goes another one. Too bad your kid is still in bed,” he says.
The bird wings by. The bluefish’s teeth are set in a gruesome smile. Its visible eye is wide, its tail flapping, as the osprey carries it, hanging like a suitcase from its talons.
~ Joan Wilking
Darcy Scalon Moulton
In Sight of Land
Charcoal
Meet the Creators
Joan Wilking
Author and graphic artist Joan Wilking's work has appeared extensively in print and online. She is also a ceramicist whose work has been shown here and around the country.
Darcy Scalon Moulton
I am an artist working and living in Ipswich, Massachusetts. My work explores humanity’s isolation and spiritual disparity from nature in the modern world. I use emotive contemporary landscapes and dark single subject realism of flora and fauna, drawing on their innate ghostliness with monochromatic and limited palettes.My practice currently revolves around the use of charcoals and pastels on recycled and hand made papers which begins messy and rough, then painstakingly layers into delicate and refined imagery. I hope 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.